Disaster Boeing 737 airplane crashes shortly after taking off from Havana - 102 people dead, 3 critically injured

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airplane-crash-havana-cuba-1.4669283

A Boeing 737 operated by state airline Cubana has crashed on takeoff from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana with 104 passengers on board, according to Cuban state media.

There's no immediate word on casualties.

State television and websites said the plane was headed to the eastern city of Holguin and crashed between the airport in southern Havana and the nearby town of Santiago de las Vegas.

The plane crashed in a farm field and appeared heavily damaged and burnt, with firefighters spraying water on its smouldering remains. Government officials, including President Miguel Diaz-Canel, rushed to the site, along with a large number of emergency medical workers and ambulances.

Residents of the rural area said they had seen some survivors being taken away in ambulances.

The plane was rented by Cubana, which has taken many of its aging planes out of service in recent months due to mechanical problems.

 

[CIA Nigger]

There's only around 3 confirmed survivors in critical condition, and a high number of deaths.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-crash-havana-cuba-today-2018-05-18/

 

[UW 411]

Spoiler: Article text

Cuba's First Vice-President, Salvador Valdes Mesa, met Thursday with Cubana officials to discuss improvements in its heavily criticized service. The airline is notorious among Cubans for its frequent delays and cancellations, which Cubana blames on a lack of parts and airplanes due to the U.S trade embargo on the island.

Hmm... Thursday, you say?
Trade embargo is to blame, you say?

Spoiler: Article text

The crash Friday was Cuba's third major fatal accident since 2010.

Hmm... sounds like a pattern, no? Maybe it's a problem on your end...

Spoiler: But wait, there's more...

Cubana, the country's national airline company, rented the plane from Blue Panorama, Cuban media reports.

Blue Panorama? The cheapest of the cheap? Cuban government is responsible for Cubana but this is a below low budget company... hmm...

Spoiler: Final paragraph

"Among the difficulties created by the U.S. trade embargo is our inability to acquire latest-generation aircraft with technology capable of guaranteeing the stability of aerial operations," Hernandez said. "Another factor is obtaining part for Cubana's aircraft."

Hey USbrahs, I think Cuba's putting this shit on you guys...

Hmmmmmmmmm.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

The fuckers are blaming the embargo for it now.

How is it America's fault a shitty leased Mexican 737-500 crashed?

 

[CIA Nigger]

The fuckers are blaming the embargo for it now.

How is it America's fault a shitty leased Mexican 737-500 crashed?

From what reports now say it was actually a 737-200, probably built in 1979, so it's even shittier. They're also now saying the death toll is "more than 100".

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

This is an appropriate metaphor for communism IMO.

 

[Lysol]

Hey USbrahs, I think Cuba's putting this shit on you guys.

Death is an acceptable alternative to communism.

This is an appropriate metaphor for communism IMO.

I think it's more apt to compare it to a guy who is fishing, going to cast and hooking himself in his own ass and blaming the guy who wouldn't go fish for him because the idiot who hooked his own ass is a complete asshole to his own family, and the dude he asked to fish for him doesn't want to support a scumbag child-abuser/wife-beater.

 

[TowinKarz]

Wonder if they'll ever learn the Aliens didit! US embargo didit! insn't going to fly (bad pun) as an excuse anymore? Well, actually, they won't learn because they don't have to, cronyism will keep the old commies in power till they die, regardless of who is or isn't selling them stuff.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Alas, if only there were a non-US company or two that manufactured airplanes...

 

[WaltherPPGAY]

If only overtures towards ending the embargo weren't met with sonic weapon attacks.

 

[CWCchange]

The fuckers are blaming the embargo for it now.

How is it America's fault a shitty leased Mexican 737-500 crashed?

Funny, all the American cars from the 40s and 50s still work, despite having intended lifespans of like five years. Meanwhile, all the Chinese shit and pinko Latin American hand-me-downs fall apart the minute they arrive on Cuban shores.

 

[usernames can change now!]

737s are one of or the most reliable and long serving aircraft ever. If you fuck up the maintenance enough to RUD one, it's on you.

 

[Antipathy]

Did they fail a Cuban 9/11?
Oh, wait, it was just "WE NEED PLANE PARTS NAO USA"

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I guess you could say half of their hearts are in Havana.

Really though, that sucks.