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American International Airways Flight 808 was a cargo flight operated by American International Airways (now Kalitta Air) that crashed on August 18, 1993 while attempting to land at Leeward Point Field at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. All three crew members on board survived with serious injuries.
The president of Cuba's Church of the Nazarene confirmed that ten pastors from the church, and their spouses, were among the passengers that were killed in the crash. [29] Flight 972 is the second deadliest aircraft accident in Cuba, surpassed only by the crash of Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 in 1989, which killed 150 people.
José Martí International Airport (IATA: HAV, ICAO: MUHA), sometimes known by its former name Rancho Boyeros Airport, is an international airport located in the municipality of Boyeros, 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the centre of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación and Aerogaviota, and former Latin American hub for the Soviet (later Russian) airline Aeroflot. [5]
A Cubana Bristol Britannia 318 at Jorge Chávez International Airport in 1972. The carrier received the first of these aircraft in December 1958. [7]The airline was established by Clement Melville Keys on 8 October 1929 as Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss S.A., initially as a flying school as well as a charter carrier, beginning scheduled services in 1930.
Southwest flight 3923 from Havana to Fort Lauderdale was forced to make an emergency landing in Cuba after birds hit the plane's nose and engine.
Crashed into the sea shortly after departing Santiago de Cuba bound for Havana. [14] 27 March 1966: Havana Il-18B: CU-T831 Unknown 2: The aircraft was operating a Santiago de Cuba–Havana flight when it was hijacked by the flight engineer and the plane was demanded to be flown to Florida, but the pilot flew the aircraft to Havana instead. When ...
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Aerogaviota was forced to suspend operations in 2022 due to a lack of available aviation fuel but in late 2023 resumed a network of domestic destinations with future plans to resume international flights to Jamaica in support of the receding Cuban tourism.