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Tech executive Adam Robinson made a chilling online post about plane crashes months before he, his wife and their two children were obliterated when the Learjet 60 jet smashed into a Florida street on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Robinson, 44, of Texas, his wife Helen Sharp, 40, and their kids Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, were killed instantly when the private jet plummeted almost 30,000 feet in a minute and completely disintegrated when it crashed into the ground outside of a trailer park in Palm Beach.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou don\u2019t need to crash a plane to learn to fly \u2026 and you don\u2019t need VC to build a business,\u201d the millionaire entrepreneur eerily posted on X in April.<\/p>\n
Robinson, a former banker who ran multimillion-dollar startups, filled his social media feeds with similar words of wisdom about startup culture.<\/p>\n
Hours before his death, he posted on LinkedIn about \u201cfixing churn,\u201d \u201cleaving money on the table\u201d and a friendly debate about the structure of his companies.<\/p>\n
Also on board the doomed flight were Robinson\u2019s friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr, nanny Anita Maria Apellido Cetina as well as pilot Jeff Gregory and young co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, who got her pilot\u2019s license while still in high school.<\/p>\n
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Filgueiras can be heard screaming and pleading for help in haunting audio that recorded her final panicked moments as the plane rapidly descended.<\/p>\n
Robinson, who was based in Austin, was founder and CEO of software companies Retention.com and RB2B.<\/p>\n
He previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdam and Helen were devoted parents, and Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, were the light of their lives,\u201d his family shared in a social media tribute.<\/p>\n
Their friends, Charmi and Rachael \u201cwere full of joy and adventure. They loved their people fiercely, fully and without hesitation,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n
Anita Maria \u201ccared for Emma and Charlie with tenderness and devotion, and she was truly part of the family,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n
Helen was a ceramics artist who frequently shared videos of her works on her Instagram, as well as pictures of the couple\u2019s two young children.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash, which made international headlines after the plane exploded into a fireball, remains under investigation, however the jet began falling out of the sky after it flew through temperatures as cold as -50 degrees Fahrenheit as it tried to go over a patch of bad weather.<\/p>\n
The plane began to pick up ice and hit heavy turbulence, before it began to break up, scattering debris over a half-mile radius before it completely disintegrated on impact, authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Aviation experts have speculated that thunderstorms could\u2019ve played a role in the disaster, with AccuWeather meteorologists revealing that a quarter of an inch of rain fell per hour in the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
The $2 million chartered flight was heading towards the Bahamas from Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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