Overview
- A chartered Learjet 60 traveling from Austin to the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County on Sunday and all nine people on board were killed.
- Victims include a Texas family with two young children, two friends and a nanny, and the pilots identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory and 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras.
- Former NFL running back Joe Mixon posted that he flew on that same aircraft last month with the same two pilots and offered public condolences.
- Local and federal investigators have opened an inquiry and early reports cite possible airframe icing and severe turbulence before the aircraft went down, but those factors remain unconfirmed.
- The crash has intensified questions about private-jet safety and will hinge on investigators’ findings, which could affect charter oversight and pilot training standards.