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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[–] 16 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Not really sure how that’s relevant to my comment, it’s still bad for planes to be falling out of the sky and killing multiple children + workers, no matter who chartered the flight.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    Private jets that crash a lot kill rich assholes.

    So maybe instead of banning them we lower regulations and mandate people over a certain net worth must travel by private jet.

    And also they get exclusive first access to any new submersibles.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    A 2 year old and a 4 year old died in terror, no amount of billionaires would be worth it.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

    There was a scene in a show whose title I can’t recall where a man was in a bus depot talking to a young mother with her child sleeping in her lap.

    She said they were taking the bus because it was a lower carbon option.

    The psychopath pointed out that the best thing she could do for the climate would be to kill her child.

    A child growing up in the West, let alone a privileged one, is the single longest and biggest source of carbon emissions we know of.

    Edit: The show is called Utopia. The original British version.

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