Plane Crash in Cuba – level 2

21-05-2018 07:00

A plane in Cuba crashed soon after take-off while it was flying from the capital of Havana to Holguín, which is in the south of Cuba.

People found the wreckage 20 kilometres off Havana. Including 11 foreigners, 110 people died in the crash. Only three women survived, but they have serious burns and their condition is critical.

People do not yet know the cause of the crash. People found one of the two black boxes from the plane.

Difficult words: wreckage (the crashed plane), cause (why something happens), black box (a machine which records what happens on a plane).

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