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Cubana de Aviación S.A is Cuba's largest airline and flag carrier, it has also a Cargo version named a Cubana de Aviación Cargo S.A.Cubana de Aviación was created on October 8 1929, operating Sikorsky S-38. After the Cuban Revolution, the airline started operating Soviet aircraft like the An-24, Il 18, Il 62m, and Tu-154B2.
A Cubana Bristol Britannia 318 at Jorge Chávez International Airport in 1972. The carrier received the first of these aircraft in December 1958. [8]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.
Cubana de Aviación, the national carrier of Cuba, [1] has been involved in 51 incidents and accidents between 1934 and 2018, 27 of which had one fatality or more, with 708 fatalities. Included are ground and collision fatalities and hijackings.
January 1, 1961 A Cubana Bristol Britannia 318 is hijacked by two people and diverted to New York City. [15] May 1, 1961 Antulio Ramirez Ortiz hijacks National Airlines Flight 337, a Convair 440, from Miami International Airport to Cuba. [16] July 3, 1961 A Cubana DC-3 is hijacked by 14 people and diverted to Miami. [17]
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. [3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
The 1952 Bermuda air crash occurred on 6 December 1952, when a Douglas DC-4, registered CU-T397 and operated by Cubana de Aviación, flying from Madrid to Havana, [1] crashed into the Atlantic Ocean following a refuelling stop at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda. There were 33 passengers and 8 crew on board the aircraft.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 493, registration CU-T188, was a Douglas DC-4 en route from Miami, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, on April 25, 1951. A US Navy Beechcraft SNB-1 Kansan , BuNo 39939, was on an instrument training flight in the vicinity of Naval Air Station Key West , Florida, at the same time.
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