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Relatives of the victims of the plane that crashed shortly after taking off from Jose Marti airport killing 107 people, remain outisde the Institute of Legal Medicine in Havana, on May 19, 2018. Cuba begins two days of national mourning Saturday for victims of the crash of a state airways plane that killed all but three of its 110 passengers and crew. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said an investigation was under way into Friday's crash of the nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737, leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company. YAMIL LAGE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES |
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Grieving relatives of passengers who perished in Cuba's worst aviation disaster leave the morgue, in Havana, Cuba on May 19, 2018. Investigators are trying to determine why an aging Boeing 737 carrying more than 100 people went down and erupted in flames shortly after takeoff in Havana. RAMON ESPINOSA/AP |
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Rescue teams search through the wreckage site of a Boeing 737 that plummeted into a cassava field with more than 100 passengers on board, in Havana, Cuba, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport in Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa, AP |
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Forensic investigators and Ministry of Interior officers sift through the remains of a Boeing 737 that plummeted into a yuca field with more than 100 passengers on board, in Havana, Cuba, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport. Desmond Boylan, AP |
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The partner of a member of the crew of a jetliner that crashed in Cuba and another friend, comfort each other in Mexico City, May 18,2018. Rebecca Blackwell, AP |
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A police officer stops the passage of vehicles to the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on May 18, 2018 after a Boeing-737 crashed shortly after take off. Alejandro Ernesto, EPA-EFE |
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A survivor of the Boeing-737 plane that crashed shortly after take off at the Jose Marti International Airport, is transferred to the Calixto Garcia Hospital, in Havana, Cuba, May 18, 2018. Marcelino Vazquez, EPA-EFE |
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A Cuban airliner with more than 100 people on board plummeted into a yuca field just after takeoff from Havana's international airport on Friday. ANDREA RODRIGUEZ/AP |
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Rescue and search workers on the site where a Cuban airliner with more than 100 passengers on board plummeted into a yuca field just after takeoff from the international airport in Havana, Cuba May 18, 2018. RAMON ESPINOSA/AP |
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Rescue and search workers on the site where a Cuban airliner with more than 100 passengers on board plummeted into a yuca field just after takeoff from the international airport in Havana, Cuba May 18, 2018. RAMON ESPINOSA/AP |
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Emergency personnel work at the site of the accident after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on May 18, 2018. Adalberto Roque, AFP/Getty Images |
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