Emergency personnel rush a victim of a small plane crash to an awaiting ambulance near the causeway, in Galveston, Texas, on Dec. 22, 2025. Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County Daily News via AP
A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.
Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, including a child, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear which of them were confirmed dead by U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Luke Baker.
