It happened in the tropical lull that is Havana’s midday, usually a time for lunch and rest.
A tremendous noise broke the calm: the crash of a passenger aircraft that had just taken off from the capital’s airport.
“The explosion shook everything,” recounted Yasniel Diaz, who was near the airport and saw the plane fall to the ground and smash into it.
The cause of the crash of the Boeing 737, a 39-year-old aircraft leased from Mexican company Aerolineas Damojh to state carrier Cubana de Aviacion and flying a domestic route with more than 100 passengers on board, has yet to be determined.
But Diaz, a 21-year-old musician who had spent the night on a farm in the vicinity, said: “I was going home and I saw the plane and the pilot was flying to the right, he lost altitude and went down….
Source: Seychelles News Agency
