Mexican Navy plane carrying child patient crashes off Texas coast, five killed

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 died.

Two of the people



aboard were members of the Michou and Mau Foundation, which is a nonprofit that provides aid to Mexican children who have suffered severe burns.

The US Coast Guard confirmed that five people had been killed in the crash and that the cause of the crash is under investigation.

The crash took place Monday afternoon near the base of a causeway near Galveston, along the Texas coast about 50 miles (80.5 kilometres) southeast of Houston.