Boeing 737 crashes near Havana airport

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A Boeing 737 airliner has crashed and exploded near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban media report.The plane came down shortly after take-off, Prensa Latina news agency said.

 The plane was carrying 104 passengers and foreign crew, local reports say. No information about casualties has yet been confirmed. The airliner had been leased by state airline Cubana de Aviación from the Mexican company Damojh, Cuba's Director of Air Transport said.

 State TV said it was an internal flight from the Cuban capital to Holguin, in the east of the island.  Images showed a thick column of smoke near the crash site. Fire crews and ambulances are at the scene.

A flight tracker on the Jose Marti International Airport website showed a flight operated by Cubana de Aviation scheduled to leave Havana at 11:00 CDT and arrive in Holguin at 12:20 CDT.

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