Posted on 12/22/2025 6:32:41 PM PST by Red Badger
A Mexican Navy aircraft carrying medical patients crashed Monday near Galveston, Texas, resulting in at least two confirmed deaths.
According to Fox News, the Mexican Navy said eight people were on board the aircraft – four naval crew members and four civilians.
The U.S. Coast Guard conducted search and rescue operations.
A Mexican Navy Beechcraft King Air 350i crashed into Galveston Bay in southeastern Texas while approaching Scholes International Airport. Local authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard are conducting ongoing search-and-rescue operations.
More from Fox News:
Search and rescue protocols were immediately activated following the crash in coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard, which has rescued six people so far. Four were found alive, while two deaths have been confirmed. Efforts remain underway to rescue two additional people still believed to be inside the wreckage, the Mexican Navy said.
According to the Michou and Mau Foundation’s website, its vision is to “provide assistance so that children with severe burns have the best advanced treatment programs and multidisciplinary care.”
The Mexican Navy added that search and rescue efforts were immediately activated in coordination with local authorities.
The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office said its personnel also responded to the plane crash near the base of the causeway.
“A 1-year-old medical patient,” was among the individuals on board the aircraft, the New York Post noted.
“The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is the primary agency leading the crash investigation, with the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office and Galveston Police Department providing support. The incident remains under investigation, and additional information will be released as it becomes available,” the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office stated.
The New York Post shared further:
It’s not immediately clear if weather was a factor. However, the area has been experiencing foggy conditions over the past few days, according to Cameron Batiste, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
He said that at about 2:30 p.m. Monday a fog came in that had about a half-mile visibility. The foggy conditions are expected to persist through Tuesday morning.
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My prayers for all on board.
Why do they say “near a state?” If it crashed in Galveston Bay, it is in Texas.
Haven’t there been several accidents involving the Beechcraft King Air 350i recently?
There was the Learjet 55 air ambulance crash on January 31, 2025 outside Philadelphia. The jet was operated by Jet Rescue, a Mexican air ambulance company. It had just taken off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport carrying a young girl from Mexico who had completed medical treatment in the U.S.. Also on board were her mother and four Mexican crew members (pilot, co-pilot, doctor, and nurse).
Shortly after takeoff, the plane experienced a catastrophic failure, crashed into a residential neighborhood in the city’s Mayfair section, exploded, and started multiple house fires. All six people on board were killed; miraculously, no one on the ground died, though several homes were destroyed and residents injured.
Sounds like perhaps an approach at or below minimums. Read where visibility was 1/2 mile.
Maybe clipped the seawall like that Asian Air did in SFO.........
Yes. Sounds like a medical mission to deliver an infant for medical care.
So sad. All were trying to send an infant for US medical care
Scree all you haters.
I swear I saw video footage many months back about a Mexican medical helicopter crash that was eerily similar. They were flying a young patient to a U.S. hospital.
Well.
Scree you too
There was no hate on this thread, until you showed up.
Update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQGgsl5pXNo
That includes remarkable video from the son of a civilian who went into the water to rescue a woman trapped in the wreckage. She was asking about the baby, but, the baby died. :-(
Kudos to the young man and his dad, though!
5 dead, 2 hospitalized, one missing. :-(
I owned a Beechcraft Baron for 10 years and had occasion to fly the King Air many times. To me, it is the finest twin engine prop jet made and so my guess is this crash is pilot error or weather or lack of maintenance.
Mexican? Nothing of value was lost.
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