The Mexican navy plane that crashed Monday afternoon in Texas, United States, had lost communication with the control tower 10 minutes before the accident, President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her morning news conference on Tuesday. “The plane had arrived in Galveston. They thought it had landed and then they learned that there had been an accident,” he detailed from the National Palace, where he indicated that an investigation was underway to clarify the causes of the accident. There were eight passengers on the plane, five of whom died. There is still one person missing and two survivors.
The accident occurred while the Navy Secretariat aircraft was conducting a medical support mission in coordination with the Michou and Mau Foundation, known for its work with pediatric burn patients. Sheinbaum sent his condolences to the families of the deceased, who included Mexican sailors. “What happened is very sad,” he stressed to journalists. The file is being monitored by Admiral Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, Secretary of the Navy, with the support of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United States team.
Sheinbaum assured that the causes why the plane crashed a few minutes before landing are still unknown. The pilot attempted to land in the area in heavy fog, but stopped communication shortly before word was received that there had been an accident. The Mexican government has launched an investigation to find out what happened before the crash near Scholes International Airport, on the outskirts of the coastal city of Galveston, an hour south of Houston. “Until the black box is brought out and analyzed, we cannot know what caused the collapse,” the president warned. During this time, the relatives of the deceased benefit from the care of the Government.
One of the passengers, whose whereabouts are unknown, is being sought by an operation involving Mexican authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard with divers in the area. For the moment, the Secretary of the Navy has not specified whether the burned miner who was transported was one of the survivors or the deceased. He was accompanied by three other civilians and four Mexican navy crew members.
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