Learjet Crash Victims Identified: a 20-Year-Old Copilot and Tech Founder Adam Robinson, His Wife and Their Two Children Are Among the Nine
The nine people killed in Sunday's Learjet crash near West Palm Beach began to have names on Monday night. The Associated Press reported the victims included Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, a 20-year-old who earned her pilot's license in high school and, her mother says, was the copilot - and technology entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife and their two children.
The victims of Sunday's plane crash in Florida included a 20-year-old woman who got her pilot's license while still in high school and a technology entrepreneur and his family, the Associated Press reported in its News Summary at 9:59 p.m. Eastern on Monday, a file opened and read directly by the desk this run. Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was among the nine people who died in the crash near West Palm Beach, and authorities say there were no survivors.
Filgueiras's mother says her daughter was the copilot flying the Learjet 60 from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, the AP reported. The crash also killed Adam Robinson, his wife and their two children; Robinson was the founder of Retention.com, the report said. The AP file the desk read did not name Robinson's wife or the children, and this story does not either.
The identification is the human chapter of an investigation this desk has followed since Sunday: the crash itself (SQ-20261101-058), the NTSB go-team and the roughly 600 nearby residents expected to be relocated (SQ-20261101-067), and Monday's finding that parts of the jet likely started to break off in the air before it crashed in Greenacres, with turbulence and icing at cruising altitude under examination (SQ-20261102-041).
The names are reported exactly as the AP reported them, on the sourcing the AP gave - a mother's account for her daughter's role in the cockpit, and authorities' confirmation that there were no survivors. No cause has been determined, and this story asserts none.
