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发帖数: 22479 | 1 Cuba air tragedies: a timeline
2010 (4 November): Aero Caribbean flight 883 crashed during a scheduled
flight from Cuba’s second city, Santiago, to Havana with the loss of 68
lives. The European-made ATR 72 crashed about halfway through the journey,
due to a build up of ice combined with poor decision-making by the pilots.
1999 (25 December): Cubana flight 310 from Havana to Valencia in Venezuela
hit high ground on the approach. All 22 people on board the Russian-built
Yak 42 aircraft died. It was the second fatal accident involving the Cuban
national airline in four days.
1999 (21 December): Cubana flight 1216 from Havana to Guatemala City was
using an American-built DC10-30 aircraft owned by AOM of France. It overran
the runway in the Guatemalan capital and ran into an area of housing.
Sixteen people on board the aircraft and two people on the ground were
killed.
1998 (29 August): Cubana flight 389 was operating a domestic sector from
Quito to Guayaquil in Ecuador as part of an international round-trip. The
plane was a Russian-built Tupolev 154M which failed to get off the ground in
the thin air of Quito’s high-altitude airport. Seventy people on board and
10 on the ground lost their lives.
1997 (11 July): Cubana flight 787 was flying from Havana to Santiago, whose
airport is very close to the sea. Shortly after take off, the aircraft — a
Ukrainian-made Antonov 24 — crashed into the water, killing all 44 on board.
1990 (24 October): Cubana flight 2886 was flying the short distance from
Camaguey to Santiago, using a Yak 40. In poor weather it hit high ground
about five miles from the airport, killing 11 on board.
1989 (3 September): Cubana flight 9646 was a charter flight from Havana to
Milan, carrying Italian holidaymakers. In poor weather the Russian-built
Ilyushin 62M failed to gain height after take-off and crashed in an
inhabited area, killing 14 people on the ground and all 126 people on board
the plane.
1985 (19 January): A Cubana Ilyushin 18D; crashed shortly after take-off
from Havana for Managua in Nicaragua, killing all 38 on board. It is thought
that cargo may have shifted on board.
1976 (6 October): Cubana flight 455, an American-built DC8 aircraft, was
flying from Barbados to Kingston when a terrorist bomb exploded, causing a
fire and loss of control. All 73 people on board died. |
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