The Cuban Institute of Civil Aviation announced that there were no survivors after an airliner carrying 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners crashed in the central province of Sancti Spiritus on Thursday.

Animated Gif of the plane crash in Cuba

AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was en route from eastern Santiago de Cuba to Havana. After making an emergency call, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic controllers before it went down in a mountainous area near the village of Guasimal and burst into flames. The plane was an ATR-72-212 twin turboprop built by ATR, a joint venture of Europe’s EADS and Italian group Finmeccanica.

The list of victims includes 40 Cubans, nine Argentineans, seven Mexicans, three Dutch, two Germans, two Austrians and one Spanish, one French, one Italian, one Japanese and one Venezuelan.

Civil aviation authorities said Flight 883 lost contact with air traffic controllers around 5:42 p.m. Thursday.

A commission has been set up to investigate what caused the crash.

The last plane crash in Cuba occurred in March 2002, when a plane carrying tourists crashed in the central province of Villa Clara. Sixteen people were killed.

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