Family of four, two close friends and nanny also died in crash as pilot identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory

Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, was co-pilot of the private Learjet 60 en route from Austin-Bergstrom international airport in Texas to North Eleuthera airport in the Bahamas on Sunday when it suddenly plummeted out of the sky, killing all onboard, her mother told the New York Times.

Later on Monday, the family of the passengers who died posted a statement on Facebook identifying the victims and paying tribute to them.

It named them as Adam Robinson, 45, a Texas-based technology entrepreneur; his wife Helen Sharp, 40; and their children, Emma, four, and Charlie, two. The statement said close family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr were also killed, along with Anita Maria Cetina, the children’s nanny.

The pilot in charge of the Learjet was identified by TMZ and other media outlets on Monday as Jeff Gregory, 55, an experienced aviator from Pennsylvania.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Lear jets have a T-tail. It's not hiding under the engines or anything, it would be plainly visible if it were there.

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  • [–] 2 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

    You can barely see the left wing in that picture because there's so much blurring. I can't see how you can be so confident about it. Or why are people are so inclined to spread rumors about the root cause of an accident when that isn't their job.

    I'm just saying we should wait for the actual investigation before declaring we know what happened. But apparently that warrants a deletion?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Great. Who cares? You're not a family member or friend of the victims. You're not an investigator with the FAA or the NTSB. You can believe whatever you want to believe.

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