Four britons dead

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 15-03-02 AT 08:28 PM (GMT)]I just found this on AOL news:

AUTHORITIES are pulling the bodies of 17 people, including four Britons, from a lake in Cuba after a biplane crashed.

No-one has survived the crash near Santa Clara. Air accident investigators are looking into the cause of the crash.

The plane was a small chartered aircraft travelling from Cienfuegos to Cayo Coco, an exclusive resort in the keys on the main island’s northern coast.

Witnesses who rushed to the lake to investigate said they could see the plane’s tail jutting out of the water. Authorities have blocked access to the lake.

Seven funeral cars with caskets inside have been seen leaving the area.
The AN-2 model, the world’s largest biplane, was operated by the small local charter company Aerotaxi.

In the past, some AN-2 planes were used by Soviet paratroopers but most were used as small passenger planes that travelled within the former Soviet Union.

The victims include two Germans, six Canadians, including a child, four Britons and four Cubans.

A doctor at Santa Clara’s Arnaldo Milan Castro Hospital confirmed that 17 had died. There were no survivors, he said.