President Sarkissian offers condolences over passenger plane crash in Cuba
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian sent a letter of condolences to the President of the Cuban Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdezover numerous human deaths in a passenger plane crash at Havana’s airport, press department at the president’s Office reported.
“On behalf of the people of Armenia and my own behalf I express sincere condolences to You, families of the victims and friendly people of Cuba,” read the condolence letter in part.
To remind, a Boeing-737 leased by Cuba’s Cubana de Aviacion airlines from Mexico’s Global Air crashed on Friday while taking off from Havana’s Jose Marti international airport. The jet was to perform a domestic flight to Holguin with 105 people onboard.
The plane crashed a minute after the takeoff in a farming area between the airport and the settlement of Santiago de las Vegas some 20 kilometers south of Havana.