Daily Mail: More than 100 dead after Cuban Boeing 737 carrying 113 passengers and crew explodes in a ball of flames and crashes moments after taking off from Havana airport
* Internal Cubana de Aviacion flight was headed for Holguin, when it went down in a yuca field near a high school, in the Santiago de las Vegas neighborhood, on Friday
* Local reports say the Boeing 737 was carrying 104 passengers and nine crew
* More than 100 are dead and just four survivors were recovered - one of whom has since died in hospital
* Cuba's newly sworn in president Miguel Diaz-Canel said there was a 'high number of casualties'
* Witnesses reported seeing a huge fireball followed by a giant plume of smoke
* Fire crews and ambulances are already on the scene and have been filmed stretchering out passengers
A Boeing 737 plane has crashed moments after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport - just one day after more than a third of its fleet were grounded over safety concerns.
At least 100 are dead after the internal Cubana de Aviacion flight, which was carrying 113 passengers and crew, including five children, crashed into a yuca field near a high school, in the Santiago de las Vegas neighborhood, on Friday.
Just four survivors were recovered and taken to hospital in critical condition, according to Cuban media. One has since died in hospital.
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