Cuba announces deaths of all passengers on the doomed plane and find the black boxes

Havana: Cuban authorities announced Saturday that killed all 68 passengers on board the Cubana airliner that crashed Thursday in central Cuba, including 28 foreigners, noting that Almhakqien trying to determine the cause of the crash.

The newspaper "Al Quds Al Arabi" of London that the Cuban authorities did not provide any hypothesis to explain the crash of the Cuban type (ATR -72) of the Company (Aero Caribbean) during a domestic flight between Santiago in the far east of Cuba and Havana.

It was announced Rolando Diaz, president of the Regional Justice in the province of Sancti Spiritus, where the plane crashed found the black boxes of the plane and the two record data communications belonging to the trip, but he said "is still missing the rear wheel of the aircraft" as an element in the investigation.

The Cuban official added: "All bodies or body parts were charred but human remains were transferred to the Havana Institute of Forensic Medicine to identify the identity of the owners."

He said: "I do not missing any body. In this region, we find human remains on twigs and reached the moment of collision with the ground," he said, adding that the wreckage of the aircraft fire flared in the post.

The Cuban plane crashed Thursday in central Cuba, killing the 68 passengers, including 28 foreign countries in Latin America or Europe.

The Cuban national television reported, quoting a statement of the Institute of Civil Aviation said the pilot reported an emergency in less than an hour flight from the city of Santiago, located 860 kilometers southeast of Havana amid bad weather due to the progress of Tropical Storm Thomas to the region.

He added that the television equipment, then air traffic control lost contact with the plane that crashed on impact.

And the 28 foreigners on board the aircraft were 17 citizens from Latin America, including nine Argentine and seven Mexicans and a Venezuelan, and ten Europeans are three Dutch, Austrian, two Germans and a Frenchman and a Spaniard and an Italian, as well as Japanese.

And residents of the area rushed to the crash site to assist rescue teams were trying to find survivors, but to no avail. Committee was formed to investigate the causes of this tragic incident, as announced by the Cuban Civil Aviation Institute.

Was declared a state of alert on Thursday evening in the area of eastern Cuba due to the progress of Tropical Storm Thomas to coast and suspended the suspension of all flights to and from the Cuban city of Santiago.

The last crash of an aircraft in Cuba in March 2002 when the plane crashed Antonov -2 was on a flight between the city of Cienfuegos (center) and the resort of Cayo Coco Sea (center) led to the deaths of 16 people on board, including six tourists, Canadians, four Britons, two Germans .

The worst accident record in Cuba in the past thirty years is the crash of a Cuban airliner in September 1989 in Havana. The crashed plane Ilyushin "Il -62" was heading to Milan shortly after takeoff, killing the 115 passengers, including 113 tourists in Italy killed 40 Cubans on the ground after the crash