Recovery teams removed the last charred bodies from the wreckage of a plane which went down in mountainous central Cuba, as officials vowed today to get to the bottom of what caused the crash and said they have the capacity to do it alone.

Cuban authorities said a state airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital Havana crashed in a mountainous area after declaring an emergency, killing all 68 people aboard, including 28 foreigners.