Relatives of Cuba crash victims arrive at airline's office in Mexico

(18 May 2018) Relatives gathered at the Mexico City office of an air charter company who owned the plane that went down after taking off from the Havana airport on Friday to try to gain news about the fate of the company's employees who were on board. Flight 972 was operated by Cuba's state-run airline, Cubana de Aviacion, on a charter plane rented from Aerolineas Damojh. That's the legal name of a small charter company that also goes by Global Air. Two women who said they were relatives of Global Air crew members appeared at the company's offices saying they were still awaiting information from Global Air. They declined to identify themselves or their relatives. A former flight attendant Ana Marlen Covarrubias said she knew almost all of the crew members on the ill-fated flight. "It was an accident. I don't have the words. I'm very sad. We're in mourning," a tearful Covarrubias said. She left Global Air about two and a half years ago after working there for more than seven years. The 39-year-old airliner with at least 110 people aboard crashed and burned in a cassava near Cuba's capital leaving three survivors in the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades, officials said. It went down just after noon a short distance from the end of the runway at Jose Marti International Airport while on a short-hop flight to the eastern city of Holguin. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...