The Boeing 737 came down into a field in Havana on Friday, before flames were seen coming from the aircraft.
Three women who were pulled from the wreckage are thought to be the only survivors.
Carlos Alberto Martinez, director of the Calixto Garcia Hospital in capital city Havana, said doctors are always hopeful that their patients will recover but he acknowledged that the three Cuban women are in an extremely grave condition.
“We must be conscious that they present severe injuries,” Mr Martinez said. “They are in a critical state.”
The Cuban Council of Churches announced that 20 clergy members of an evangelical church were among the dead.
“On that plane were 10 couples of pastors, 20 people. All of the Nazarene Church in the eastern region,” said Maite Quesada, a member of the council.
The pastors had spent several days at a meeting in the capital and were returning to their homes and places of worship in the province of Holguin.
Relatives of those who died gathered at a morgue in the capital, weeping and embracing each other, as investigators tried to piece together why the ageing Boeing 737 carrying 113 people went down and erupted in flames shortly after take-off on Friday afternoon.
It was Cuba’s worst aviation disaster in three decades and its third major air accident since 2010.
Skies were overcast and rainy at the airport at the time of Friday’s disaster and…
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