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100+ killed in Cuba plane crash,3 survivors
| Shortly afterward, Granma issued a correction, saying that all three women are alive.
Flight DMJ 0972 was headed to the eastern Cuban city of Holguin when it plummeted into in an agricultural area in the Santiago de las Vegas neighborhood at 12:08 p.m., according to Granma. Vice Minister of Transportation Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila said there were 105 passengers on board, including one infant. Five passengers were foreigners and 100 were Cuban, he said.
| Argentina's Foreign Ministry said two passengers were Argentine.
Orestes Bentancour, who lives near the crash site, told CNN that he was drawn out of his home by the "enormous noise" the plane made on takeoff. He said the plane appeared to swerve to one side and revved its engines before crashing.
Five crew members on board were Mexican nationals, according to Mexico's Civil Aviation Authority.
| Global Airline, which operated the flight, said there were six crew members, all Mexican nationals.
The nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737-200 was owned by the Mexican airline Aerolíneas Damojh and leased to Cubana de Aviacion, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The charter flight "suffered a failure" and crashed about six miles from the airport.
| Search and rescue personnel descended on the area – with some residents helping – as firefighters tried to extinguish the flames, according to photos and video from the scene.
The Granma report included a photo from an airport terminal of a towering plume of black smoke rising in the distance.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/18/americas/cuba-airliner-crash/
| They were not "killed", they died by accident. Learn the difference.
| >>289923
It sounds like the accident has his own willpower and intensions. I'm not very convinced.
| >>291730
Either it is expressed pretty unluckily or it is on purpose for the sake to have the connotation of "...people killed in Cuba...". Because, if a plane crashes in Cuba, people were killed (probably by the evil Cuban government), while a burning house in England is just a tragically accident no one is responsible for (except it was sabotage by evil communists, maybe from Cuba).
| >>291974 you're overthinking a basic news article on an accident way too much. This kind of title is common for accidents. I suppose the idea is that stronger words are more likely to attract people's attention. Quinticential clickbait.
| >>292080
Well, you're probably right. But this is still a thing which annoys me. It lacks of respect on the people who died and their friends and families. Also such clickbait-rhetoric will become more and more extreme as there is a competition and people start getting bored. And last but not least it distorts the relevance of news. There meanwhile often are things going on where more people are affected by and even have a chance to take influence on it.
| >>292583 That's a general issue. David Firth had an awesome series done on all the clickbait from all media these days. I'll link you to one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-t6bmh4Uc
| >>289760
Google "kill definition":
To deprive of life: The Black Death was a disease that killed millions.
Sounds like non-free-willed agents can "kill" to me, unless you have something you want to tell us about the Black Death.
No need to be a pedantic prick. People died, show some respect instead of using the article for some ulterior motive on saving the world from clickbait or whatever.
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| More than 100 people are believed dead Friday after a Cubana de Aviacion Boeing 737-200 crashed on takeoff from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport, according to Cuba's state-run media.
Three female passengers are in critical condition after surviving the crash into thick vegetation just miles from the runway, the state-run newspaper Granma reported. Earlier Friday evening, Granma reported that one of the three survivors had died.