In brief
A plane crash near Galveston, Texas, claimed the lives of five people, including those on board a Mexican Navy aircraft that was transporting a child burn victim. The aircraft was reported to have crashed while facing dense fog conditions, leading to a rescue operation that successfully saved two individuals. The incident has drawn widespread attention, prompting condolences from the Michou y Mau Foundation, which facilitates burn care for children in Mexico.
At least five people have been killed after a Mexican Navy plane crashed in foggy conditions near Galveston, Texas on Monday while transporting a child burns victim.
According to flight tracking website Flight Radar, the plane was last recorded at 15:01 local time (21:01 GMT) over Galveston Bay, near Scholes International Airport.
The aircraft was taking part in a medical mission on behalf of the Michou y Mau Foundation, which provides care to Mexican children with severe burns.
Mexico's Secretariat of the Navy said one person remains missing and two others were rescued alive.
Video footage shared with AP news agency showed the wreckage of the plane in the water, with witnesses and police officers seen entering the water to search the debris.
Sky Decker, a local yacht captain, said he took two police officers to the site of the nearly submerged plane, before jumping in and finding a badly injured woman trapped.
He said: I couldn't believe. She had maybe three inches of air gap to breathe in.
And there was jet fuel in there mixed with the water, fumes real bad. She was really fighting for her life..
Earlier the Mexican Navy Secretariat said search and rescue operations were under way in co-ordination with the US Coast Guard.
In a statement shared on X, the Michou y Mau Foundation sent 'our deepest condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy'.
