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.
20 year-old co-pilot…Is that unusual for a private jet crew?
Yeah apparently she was kind of a prodigy, actually from Palm Beach where the crash was. There’s a news segment from a few years ago featuring her and it is at a high school like two miles from the crash site.
She was apparently pretty skilled. She had like 1300 flight hours by 17 or something if I remember right. This wasn’t some kid playing around, flying was her passion
Maybe?
But if she is qualified, then she’s qualified.