The two women who survived a plane crash into Galveston Bay last week are recovering, according to the Mexican nonprofit organization that was involved in the flight.
One of the women, identified as the mother of the young boy who died in the Dec. 22 crash, also reunited over the weekend with Galveston resident Sky Decker, who was boating with his son and neighbor at the time of the crash and helped pull the woman from the wreckage.
Fundación Michou y Mau, a nonprofit that helps transfer pediatric burn patients in Mexico to Shriners Children’s Texas hospital in Galveston, provided an update on the survivors in a social media post on Saturday. Virginia Sendel, the foundation’s president and founder, credited Decker for saving the life of Julia Aracelis Cruz Vera. She was extubated and is in stable condition, according to the foundation, which said the other survivor, nurse Miriam de Jesús Rosas Mancilla, also is improving.
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The other six people aboard the small Mexican Navy plane died in the crash, including the young boy identified by Mexican authorities as Federico Efraín Ramírez Cruz. The boy’s father traveled to Galveston this past weekend along with Dr. Yannick Nordin, the medical director of the foundation.
The other people who died in the plane crash were identified by the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston as Dr. Juan Alfonso Adame González and four members of the Mexican Navy: Lt. Víctor Rafael Pérez Hernández, Lt. Juan Iván Zaragoza Flores, Seaman Guadalupe Flores Barranco and Lt. Luis Enrique Castillo Terrones.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the crash, which involved a Beech King Air 350i, a twin-engine turboprop plane.
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