an airliner sunwingwhich took off from Villa Clara airport bound for Canada, emergency landing at Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport in murdersaccording to official sources.

“They confirm that the Sunwing 307 aircraft, which left Santa Clara airport in emergency, bound for Montreal, managed to land at Varadero airport,” he reported in his profile. Facebook the official journalist Lazaro Manuel Alonso.

After takeoff, the Canadian company’s plane “presented problems with the left landing gear”, said the journalist from the Cuban Television news services.

“The plane performed maneuvers over the province of Matanzas until it managed to land passengers and crew. The passengers are already getting off the plane. Good news that comes after several minutes of tension” , he assured.

Also in FacebookTV reporter Yumurí Pedro Rizo Martinez reported that the plane landed with 190 passengers on board, without reporting injuries or deaths among passengers and crew.

“In the province of Matanzas, they activated emergency protocols to assist the crew of the Sunwing 307 aircraft of a Boeing 737-800 that covered the Santa Clara-Toronto route. They are on the ground receiving applause from terminal workers. The main authorities of the Party, led by the member of the Central Committee and first secretary in Matanzas, Susely Morfa González, as well as the governor Mario Sabines Lorenzo, the Minint and the Civil Defense are on site. There are no injuries,” he said. added in a second post.

Since last November, the Canadian airline has been operating direct flights, twice a week, to Santa Clara, Cayo Coco and Varadero; and once a week, in Holguín and Cayo Largo.

Sunwing is owned by Toronto-based Sunwing Travel Group, which is responsible for management of all hotels in Cayo Largo del Surthanks to a concession granted by the Cuban government.

The Cuban government and this international consortium have signed an agreement for the Gran Caribe group of companies and the Blue Diamond Resorts hotel chain to assume the joint management of all hotel facilities, with 1,348 rooms, and non-hotel facilities in Cayo Largo del Sur, for 10 years and renaming accommodations with the Blue Diamond flag, including Grand Memories, Sanctuary at Grand Memories, Memories and Starfish.

In July 2022, we learned that this company also obtained from the regime a import license which allows you to directly control what is entered in this tourist destination.

At the beginning of last March, the fire of a turbine of an airplane of the American airline Southwestbound for Fort Lauderdale, forced him to return from emergency at Havana airport.

As local residents and aerodrome workers confirmed on social media, the plane took off around 12:05 p.m. and had to return to the terminal and land in an emergency a few minutes later, due to an explosion in the right engine during ascent. . .

The news was confirmed by the Cuban Aviation Company SAin communication on Facebook, where he clarified that during the take-off process, “failures” were detected in one of the engines of the plane -type Boeing 737-, for which the emergency landing of flight SWA 3923 bound for Fort Lauderdale, Florida was authorized.