Overview
- A Learjet 60 en route from Austin to the Bahamas crashed in a residential area near Cresthaven on Sunday, Nov. 1, killing all nine people aboard including entrepreneur Adam Robinson, his wife Helen Sharp and their two young children.
- The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration have opened a formal investigation and are working with Learjet specialists plus weather and air-traffic control experts to examine possible factors.
- Investigators described the debris field as roughly a half-mile long and warned that many pieces may be small which will slow recovery and complicate efforts to determine what happened.
- Passenger lists released by family members and local reporting name Robinson and his family, two friends from Austin, a nanny, and the two pilots including 20-year-old Nathalia Filgueiras who has been identified as the copilot.
- Robinson was a self-funded Austin tech founder behind Retention.com and RB2B and his death adds public attention to private jet safety and the NTSB probe that could take months to complete.