Overview
- Authorities recovered a missing victim Tuesday, bringing fatalities to six and leaving two survivors in care.
- The Mexican Navy Beechcraft King Air crashed into West Galveston Bay during approach to Scholes International Airport around 3:17–3:20 p.m. Monday.
- The flight was a humanitarian transfer coordinated with the Michou y Mau Foundation to reach Shriners Children’s Texas with a pediatric burn patient.
- Texas Department of Public Safety is leading the investigation with FAA and NTSB assistance as U.S. and Mexican teams transition from search to wreckage recovery.
- Officials are assessing dense fog at the time and a roughly 10-minute loss of communications reported by Mexico’s president, with no cause determined.