US EditionVictims of the Galveston Bay medical plane crash honored in Texas City before returning to Mexico
Five of six victims, including four marines and a medic, were honored in Texas City before their remains were flown to Mexico; two survivors remain hospitalized.
- Today in Texas City, funeral directors and families honored five victims before their remains were escorted to Scholes International Airport in Galveston for transfer to Mexican naval officers, with the flight departing around 8:30 a.m.
- On December 22, a medical transfer flight crashed in heavy fog while carrying a pediatric burn patient from Merida, Mexico, to Galveston, Texas; Federico Efrán Ramírez Cruz was killed.
- Two people survived the crash and continue to receive treatment, including Julia Aracelis Cruz Vera, the child's mother, and Miriam de Jesús Rosas Mancilla, flight nurse, while bystanders and multiple responding agencies assisted survivors.
- Mexican Navy officers prepared the remains for return to Mexico as families await their arrival, with a pastor calling the transfer `a somber but vital step` and funeral directors honoring the role.
- The National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigation focusing on the pilot, aircraft, and operating environment, collecting flight track data, ATC communications, maintenance records, weather forecasts, and examining the pilot's license and recent experience; witnesses should contact witness@ntsb.gov.
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The Government of Mexico reported on Friday, January 2, that the remains of the Mexican people who died after the collapse of a Navy Secretariat aircraft headed for Galveston, Texas, United States, were repatriated to national territory on a medical mission, while one of the survivors had already returned to the country and the other “evolved favourably.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) stated in an information note that, following consula…
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The Rev. Mario Gutierrez, a funeral director at Carnes Funeral Home, 3100 Gulf Freeway in Texas City, led a prayer service at 5:30 a.m. before the procession, offering comfort to families, staff, and first responders who helped coordinate the repatriation.
A plane from the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) has traveled this Friday to Texas to repatriate the bodies of Mexicans who died on December 22 in the crash of a medical support aircraft in Galveston, Texas. The transfer was confirmed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has reported that a tribute will be made to the sailors who lost their lives in the accident.
By EFE - The Mexican Navy (Semar) repatriated the bodies of the six Mexicans, including a 2-year-old child, who died in a plane crash in Galveston, Texas, on Friday, confirmed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. “The remains are here. And there will even be a tribute to the sailors,” Sheinbaum said during her morning press conference. At noon on Thursday, the Navy plane landed at Scholes International Airport to begin the process of releasing t…
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