Hurricane Tomas
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Hurricane Tomas was a moderately powerful late-season tropical cyclone which became the latest Atlantic hurricane on record in the calendar year to strike the Windward Islands. The nineteenth named st
Tomas at its peak intensity while moving away from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines early on October 31
Hurricane Tomas moving through the Greater Antilles on November 5
Flood damage along the Cul de Sac River in Saint Lucia
Flooding from Tomas in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on November 6
Aero Caribbean Flight 883
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Aero Caribbean Flight 883 was an international scheduled passenger service from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Havana, Cuba with a stopover in Santiago de Cuba. On 4 November 2010, the ATR 72 operating the
Hurricane Tomas
…just to the east of Cuba hours later, but no significant damage was reported on the island. As the outer bands of Hurricane Tomas began to impact Cuba, Aero Caribbean Flight 883, an ATR-72-212 aircraft, crashed near the town of Guasimal in Sancti Spíritus province. All 68 people on board the plane were killed on impact. Although…
CU-T1549, the aircraft involved, at Baracoa Airport in 2007