Tragic Plane Crash in Texas: Five Lives Lost

Wed Dec 24 2025 05:55:55 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

A Mexican Navy plane crashed near Galveston, Texas while on a medical mission, resulting in five fatalities and multiple injured.

In a harrowing incident, a plane belonging to the Mexican Navy crashed in foggy conditions near Galveston, Texas. The aircraft was transporting a child burns victim as part of a medical mission. While the search and rescue teams managed to rescue two people alive, five fatalities have been reported. The Michou y Mau Foundation, involved in providing care for severely burned children, expressed deep condolences to the victims' families. Rescuers faced challenging weather conditions as they searched for survivors in the wreckage.

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.

Local yacht captain, Sky Decker, stated he took two police officers to the site of the nearly submerged plane and found a badly injured woman trapped inside. I couldn't believe. She had maybe three inches of air gap to breathe in. There was jet fuel in there mixed with the water, fumes real bad. She was really fighting for her life, he described.

Search and rescue operations were coordinated with the US Coast Guard in challenging weather conditions. The Michou y Mau Foundation expressed their heartfelt condolences to the families affected by this tragedy.