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injuries, the health ministry said Monday, raising the toll to 111.The 23-year-old, Gretell Landrove, was admitted to hospital with
life-threatening injuries and she did not make medical progress, the ministry said in a statement read out on state television
The other two women survivors were still in critical condition.Earlier, doctors had indicated that two of the Cuban survivors of Friday's
crash were fighting for their lives at Havana's Calixto Garcia hospital.A Boeing 737 leased to national carrier Cubana de Aviacion crashed
shortly after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on Friday with 113 passengers and crew aboard.The Cuban government is
investigating the cause of the crash and has so far identified 33 of the dead, some of whom have already been buried.Transport Minister Adel
Yzquierdo has said one of the plane's two black boxes had been recovered in "good condition," and the other was likely to be found
Their data will be key to determining what happened.The 39-year-old plane, leased from a Mexican company, Global Air, was on a domestic
flight to the eastern city of Holguin, where most of the passengers were from.In Mexico, Global Air's operations were suspended so that
Mexican aviation authorities can run inspections of the aircraft it leases, on the heels of the tragedy in Cuba.The review will double
inspect aircraft already certified as safe to fly, and assist as needed in the investigation of the accident in Cuba, a company statement
said.Built in 1979, according to the Mexican government, the plane last passed inspection in November 2017.The accident happened at 12:08pm
The plane crashed in a potato field close to Havana's airport
Witnesses and airport officials told AFP that the aircraft plunged as it was making its first turn after take-off.Almost all of what
remained of the plane was a mangled carcass of burned metal
It came down just 200 meters (yards) from houses between the Boyeros and Santiago de Las Vegas districts south of Havana.A day of mourning
ended early Monday, the Communist Party leader and former president Raul Castro said
Flags were flown at half-mast throughout the country.President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who succeeded Castro as the communist island's leader
only last month, appeared aghast as he surveyed the recovery efforts, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and surrounded by officials.He visited
the capital's morgue where the bodies were taken for identification, and met relatives who were being put up in a city hotel
He also visited the survivors.Prior to Friday's crash, Cuba's most recent air accident was in April 2017, in which eight military
personnel died when a Russian-made AN-26 transport aircraft went down in western Cuba.(Except for the headline, this story has not been
edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
