The death toll of Cuba’s deadliest air disaster in 30 years has risen to 111 after one of the survivors died of her injuries on Monday evening.
Grettel Landrove, 23, was a flamenco dancer and student engineer.
The news comes on the same day that Mexico’s civil air authority suspended the operations of a company that owned the plane involved in the crash.
Officials said in a statement that Aerolíneas Damojh was under “extraordinary verification”.
The charter company had leased the aeroplane in question to Cuban state airlines Cubana de Aviación.
Ms Landrove was one of three initial survivors of Friday’s crash. The other two – Mailen Diaz, 19, and Emiley Sanchez, 39 – remain in a critical condition, according to reports.
The plane was reportedly built in 1979. One former pilot said it had dropped off radar once, while another alleged that maintenance was poor.
The head of Guyana’s civil aviation body, Cpt Egbert Field, told the Associated Press news agency that the plane that crashed had been barred from using Guyanese airspace last year after authorities found its crew were overloading luggage on flights in Cuba.
Source: BBC news
