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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy said one person remains missing and two others were rescued alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
He said: “I couldn’t believe. She had maybe three inches of air gap to breathe in.<\/p>\n
“And there was jet fuel in there mixed with the water, fumes real bad. She was really fighting for her life.”<\/p>\n
Earlier the Mexican Navy Secretariat said search and rescue operations were under way in co-ordination with the US Coast Guard.<\/p>\n
Video taken near Scholes International Airport in Galveston showed rescuers including a dive team working in dense fog.<\/p>\n
In a statement shared on X, the Michou y Mau Foundation sent “our deepest condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n