A Mexican Navy small aircraft that transports a young patient and seven other people HE crashed on Monday in Texas, United StatesAt least five people were killed.
According to official information Eight people were traveling on board the aircraft that met a “humanitarian mission”.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry regretted the accident and announced on its account on the social network X that it was providing support to the victims’ families through the Mexican consulate in Houston.
The incident occurred in the afternoon Galveston Baynear the base of the causeway connecting Galveston Island to the mainland. Emergency and search teams rushed to the scene near the popular beach destination on the Texas coast, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Houston.
The special medical transport mission was coordinated with the Michou and Mau Foundation, which provides emergency transport for children with life-threatening burns to Shriners Children’s Hospital in Galveston.
“In view of the events, we express our deep solidarity with the families,” the foundation said in a statement
According to the flight tracking website Flight radarThe plane took off from Mérida airportState of Yucatán at 18:46 GMT and its record was lost at 21:01 GMT over Galveston Bay, near Scholes International Airport.
In a statement The Mexican Navy only spoke of an “accident”without providing any further details. He promised to investigate the cause while assisting local authorities in the search and rescue operation.
Teams from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were at the scene of the accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in X.
An NTSB spokesman said they are aware of this accident and are gathering information about it.
For his part, Sky Decker, a professional yacht captain who lives about a mile from the crash site, said he jumped into his boat to see if he could help.
He also said he picked up two police officers who guided him through the thick fog to an almost completely submerged plane. Decker jumped into the water and found a seriously injured woman trapped under chairs and other debris.
“I couldn’t believe it. She had maybe three inches of breathing space,” he said. “And there was kerosene mixed into the water, the fumes were really bad. She was really fighting for her life,” he continued.
She also noticed that she also brought out a man sitting in front of her who had already died. He described both of them wearing civilian clothing.
With information from agencies.
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