MFA: No Ukrainians onboard plane that crashed near Havana

Published May 19, 2018 at 12:18 pm

This handout picture released by Cuban News Agency (ACN) shows the arrival of a survivor of a plane crash to a hospital in Havana, after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from the Jose Marti international airport on May 18. A Boeing 737 operated by Cuban state Cubana de Aviacion airways with 113 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana, leaving a wreck of smoldering fuselage, as the country's president warned many people were feared dead. State media reported that three people had been pulled alive from the mangled wreckage and were in a critical condition in hospital.

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There were no citizens of Ukraine onboard the plane that crashed near Havana (Cuba), spokesman for the Consular Service Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vasyl Kyrylych has said.

“According to the Cuban authorities, there were no Ukrainian citizens onboard the crashed plane,” he wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

As reported, on May 18, a Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed soon after taking off from Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. There were more than 100 people onboard.

The Cuban state television said the jet was performing a domestic flight to Holguin.