All 68 passengers are dead after a Cuban airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital crashed last night, authorities announced. AeroCaribbean Flight 883 went down near the village of Guasimal in Santi Spiritus province, carrying 61 passengers, including 28 foreigners, and a crew of seven. The flight would have been one of the last leaving Santiago de Cuba ahead of Tropical Storm Tomas, which is on course to pass between Cuba's eastern end and the western coast of Haiti today. The plane crashed in a mountainous area after declaring an emergency and losing contact with air traffic controllers.
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