[kellyhound]

A Mexican Navy Beechcraft King Air 350i crashed in foggy Galveston Bay, Texas, on Dec 22, 2025, while transporting a child burn victim for the Michou y Mau Foundation.

At least five lives lost, incl. the kid, two rescued, one heroically by local captain Sky Decker and one still missing.

The flight carried 8 people: 2 pilots and 6 passengers, including a young child with severe burns. Local fishermen rushed to the wreckage to search for survivors.

Search continues with US Coast Guard.

Update: Six of the eight people aboard the plane died. Two people miraculously survived.

CONFIRMED DEAD:
• Lt. Víctor Rafael Pérez Hernández – Mexican Navy
• Lt. Juan Iván Zaragoza Flores – Mexican Navy
• Marinero Guadalupe Flores Barranco – Mexican Navy
• Lt. Luis Enrique Castillo Terrones – Mexican Navy
• Federico Efraín Ramírez Cruz – Patient
• Dr. Juan Alfonso Adame González – Physician

SURVIVORS:
• Miriam de Jesús Rosas Mancilla – Nurse
• Julia Aracelis Cruz Vera – Patient’s companion

[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Unless the Beechcraft struck a jet, this image definitely doesn't seem to belong...

[Mr.NoCredit]

I used to love skydiving out of the King Air. Wonderful airplane. I wonder what the issue was with the plain?

[William May]

Looks like the water depth is really shallow. They look like they are standing on the sea bottom and moving the wreckage around to look for survivors.

[yah]

I saw this on the news the other day. They were interviewing Sky Decker, the guy in the video trying to pull stuff out of the way. He said that he was in a plane crash (I believe when he was 10) & I think his father was flying it. I don't think he mentioned anyone dying so I don't know how bad it was. He said that he dreams of crashing all the time & it was really surreal to be in the water rescuing people from one.

Here's an article that has a lot more info:
A Galveston man and his son rushed to help after a plane crashed in the bay

'Sky Decker was on a boat ride near his Galveston home Monday afternoon, alongside his 11-year-old son and a neighbor, when he heard word of a plane crash in the bay. Instead of turning around, the crew of three drove the boat toward the crash, looking to help.

"We thought, ‘Well, we’re already in a boat,'" Decker told Houston Public Media on Monday evening.

Decker, who according to his wife had been involved in a plane crash when he was younger, said police officers waved them down along the way and got on their boat, helping to navigate them to the crash site through thick fog that sat over Galveston Island.

The scene they encountered involved eight people who were aboard a plane when it crashed at around 3:17 p.m. Monday just west of the Galveston Causeway, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard. A small Mexican Navy plane was on a medical support mission with the Michou y Mau Foundation, which helps pediatric burn patients, when it experienced an issue in its approach to Galveston.'

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