HAVANA: More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, with just three seriously injured survivors in hospital after being pulled from the wreckage, officials and state media said. The aircraft, on a domestic flight to Holguin in eastern Cuba, crashed shortly after taking off from Havana at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT). A survivor of the Boeing-737 plane that crashed shortly after take off at the Jose Marti International Airport, is transferred to the Calixto Garcia Hospital, in Havana, Cuba, 18 May 2018. The last fatal crash in Cuba was in 2017, the Aviation Safety Network said. In 2010, a commercial Aero Caribbean plane crashed in central Cuba.

Source: New Strait Times May 18, 2018 21:45 UTC