In the early hours of May 19th, Cuba Independiente y Democrática (CID) made public its position: “The airplane crash in Cuba: Why a ‘Mexican’ company owning three airplanes? CID was asking what the basic reasons were for the Cuban government to hire the passenger transport services of an airline with a dubious reputation which only had three airplanes. The statements by one of the company’s former pilots, Marco Aurelio Hernández, published by Milenio, shed light on the accident in which so far 110 people have lost their lives. Evidence leads to the conclusion that the Cuban government is responsible for their deaths. In Chile, this company was barred from flying. An inspector in that country told the pilots: “This plane is a coffee pot, you’re going back because this garbage is not flying in Chile.” The Cuban dictatorship negotiated with the same company, owner of the same airplanes. This can only be explained as an act of negligence or corruption. The conclusions are clear: the government’s responsibility for the dead in the plane accident is undeniable and inexcusable.
According to the former pilot who worked for eight years in the company, he reported cases of punctured tires, flights with no radar, engine failure and lack of maintenance for planes that were flying in poor condition because the mechanics had no spare parts. He flew several times the airplane that crashed in Cuba and the pilot who died in that accident Captain Jorge Luis Núñez, was a fellow pilot and a friend, quite qualified to fly. Both worked for two months on flights in Chile, where a Chilean inspector told them: “This plane is a coffee pot, you’re going back because this garbage is not flying in Chile,” the airplane’s fuselage was worn out. Airplane maintenance irregularities in the company were reported by this pilot on October 14, 2013, to Alexandro Argudín Le Roy who was Civil Aeronautics Director General at Mexico’s Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transporte (Communications and Transport Ministry). It is very strange that the Island’s government has not carried out any investigation. Hernández flew three different airplanes, among them the XA-UHZ, the one that crashed in Cuba. That was bound to happen, he said.
After this summary of the pilot’s statements, the questions asked by CID in “Why a ‘Mexican’ company owning just three airplanes?” are no longer so difficult to understand. The castrista regime and the media playing along worldwide will keep talking about the black boxes and the technical investigation because it is the only excuse they have to avoid the responsibility of who hired a mysterious and discredited little company. Cuban Transport Minister, Adel Izquierdo, says the papers were all in order and that responsibility for airplane maintenance was the company’s. The regrettable death of over 100 people reminds us of the tragedy of Cubana de Aviación’s flight 455 which was destroyed in 1976 by a bomb explosion that killed 73 people. That was a crime of terrorism and this is a crime of negligence or corruption. The Castrista government must be held fully accountable, as any other government in the world would be, where people and their rights are respected.
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