Previously, the Coast Guard told Chron three people had died as a result of the crash. UPDATE 8:15 p.m. CT Shriners Children's released a statement regarding the death of a child in the Galveston Bay plane crash Monday: "It is with profound sadness that we learned of a child involved in a plane crash while being transported for burn care in Galveston this afternoon.

Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical patient and seven others before it crashed off the Texas coast, killing at leas...

The crash took place Monday near the base of a causeway near Galveston, along the Texas coast about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) southeast of Houston.