A small Mexican navy plane carrying eight people on a medical mission crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least two people.

On a sparkling late-fall Sunday at a rural Virginia airfield, 16 careworn passengers were getting off a flight that changed, even saved, their lives. Some looked bemused, some wary, some enthusiastic as they were carried off a small private plane onto the tarmac at Culpeper Regional Airport.

Just days after the plane crash in North Carolina that claimed the lives of former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife and two kids and three others on board, officials are now revealing that moments before the tragedy,

Greg Biffle was the latest athlete to die in an aviation crash. There were several deaths involving planes and helicopters, including one earlier this year.