Greenacres Learjet victims

Nine people died when a Learjet 60 fell out of the sky over Palm Beach County on the afternoon of 1 November 2026. This page is their memorial — who they were, in the words their families chose and the record they left. For the accident itself, see 2026 Greenacres Learjet crash.

They were two professional aviators, a family of four, a young woman who had become part of that family, and a couple who were friends. They were bound for the Bahamas on a Part 135 charter — two hours and thirteen minutes into a flight that never arrived.^[1]

The flight crew

Jeffrey Gregory, 55 — captain

Jeffrey Gregory was a career pilot who lived in the Philadelphia suburbs — a husband and father whom his family described as a devout Christian. He had flown for charter operators across his career, including a period with East Coast Jets in 2016 and 2017; that company publicly confirmed his death. Gregory, one of his children and his daughter-in-law are graduates of Bob Jones University.^[2]

In the cockpit's final seconds, as the aircraft fell, a man's voice can be heard in the background of the radio calls reciting the Lord's Prayer — "Our Father, who art in heaven..." Friends believe the voice was his. It was, in every sense, how he met it.^[3]

Upper Jets' director of operations, Thomas Noetzel, organized an online fundraiser for Gregory's wife and children.^[4]

Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20 — first officer

Nathalia Filgueiras was twenty years old, and she was exactly where she had always wanted to be. A graduate of West Boca Raton Community High School's aviation academy, she earned her private pilot's license at 17 — before her driver's license — then trained at American Flyers and received her commercial pilot's certificate on 19 March 2026, seven months before the crash.^[5]

About ten minutes before the end, she texted her boyfriend — himself a pilot: "I've got turbulence, I've got ice." Then she went back to work. It was her voice on the radio calls that followed — calm, precise, professional — reporting the descent, declaring the emergency, reading out the numbers as they grew impossible: "We're descending 10,000 feet per minute" ... "20,000 feet per minute" ... "We're out of time."^[6]

When online commentators criticized her final transmissions, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman — himself a pilot — answered publicly: she was "doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation."^[7]

On 6 November her father spoke for the family at a press conference in Coral Gables, remembering his daughter through tears — the girl from Boca Raton who earned her wings before she could drive.^[8]

The Robinson family

Adam Robinson, 45, and Helen Sharp, 40, with their children Emma, 4, and Charles "Charlie" Robinson, 2 — all four lost together.

Adam was an Austin technology entrepreneur — founder and CEO of RB2B and Retention.com, and earlier a co-founder of the email-marketing platform Robly after starting out at Lehman Brothers and Barclays. He had recently moved his family to Aspen, Colorado, telling the ProfitLed podcast: "I feel like I'm living the dream."^[9]

Helen was an artist. The families' statement remembered the couple in one sentence that says more than a paragraph could: "Adam and Helen were devoted parents, and Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, were the light of their lives. Helen and Adam were the love affair that will last forever."^[10]

Adam's death also marked the second loss of an Austin tech entrepreneur in a plane crash in 2026 — Capital Factory founder Joshua Baer died in June.^[4]

Ana María Ramírez Cetina, 24

Ana María — "Anita Maria" in the family's statement — was the children's nanny, caring for Emma and Charlie since January. A 24-year-old Colombian biomedical engineer, she had come to the United States seeking work and to be nearer her mother. The family she worked for was plain about who she was to them: she cared for the children "with tenderness and devotion, and she was truly part of the family."^[11]

Her sister Angie told Bogotá's Blu Radio they had spoken minutes before she boarded. Colombia's government said it was assisting her family, and the country's president mourned her publicly — a young woman who crossed a continent for a life, remembered at the highest level of her homeland.^[12]

Rachel Reed, 38, and Rowan "Charmi" Fehr Toews, 38

Rachel and Charmi were a couple — friends of the family who joined the flight together and died together. The families' statement gave them their own remembrance: "Charmi and Rachel were full of joy and adventure. They loved their people fiercely, fully and without hesitation. From the moment they met, they were all in on each other and the life they were building."^[13]

How they are being remembered

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office officially confirmed all nine identities on 4 November after forensic work by its Violent Crimes Division and Crime Scene Unit with the medical examiner and the FBI — a dignified recovery in a scene that offered little of it. All next of kin were notified, and the medical examiner is coordinating the reunification of remains with the families.^[14]

Bishop Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez of the Diocese of Palm Beach celebrated a memorial Mass on All Souls' Day, 2 November — before the names were public, for whoever they were. The seven passengers' families closed their joint statement with a thought for the two families grieving alongside them: "Our hearts are also with the families of the pilots, who are grieving alongside us."^[15]

The families asked for privacy, and said memorial-service details would be shared once arrangements are made.

See also

• 2026 Greenacres Learjet crash — the accident and investigation

Media credit: N722BD photograph — Frederick Tremblay / JetPhotos (CC0).