At least five dead after Mexican Navy plane on medical mission crashes in Texas

Authorities and volunteers respond to a Mexican Navy plane crash near Galveston, Texas (Jennifer Reynolds/AP)

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed near Galveston, Texas, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said.

Four of the people on board were Navy officers and four were civilians, including a child, Mexico’s Navy said in a statement to The Associated Press.