Plane Crash at Reservoir Kills All 16 Aboard
Search-and-rescue workers pulled bodies from a small reservoir where a tourist plane crashed, killing all 16 people on board.
The single-engine Antonov AN-2 went down Thursday afternoon near Baez, about 165 miles east of Havana. Everyone on board was killed.
The chartered plane was traveling from the central city of Cienfuegos to the Cayo Coco resort along the northern coast, said Mia Yen, spokeswoman for Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa.
Cuba’s International Press Center’s list of passengers included six Canadians, four Britons and two Germans.
The other four on the plane were presumed to be Cuban: a guide, the pilot and two crew members.
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