Nanny's Family Raises Money For Funeral And Travel After Fatal Jet Crash

A jet bound for the Bahamas goes down over Palm Beach County

On the morning of November 1, 2026, a Learjet 60 took off from Austin, Texas, headed for North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas. Seven passengers and two pilots were aboard.

The jet went down near Cresthaven, a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to ColombiaOne.com. Video shared on social media showed the aircraft dropping almost straight down before it hit the ground, triggering an explosion and a fireball near a busy road.

All nine people aboard were killed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described it as a "catastrophic plane crash" and said initial reports indicated no one on the ground was hurt, ColombiaOne.com reported.

The National Transportation Safety Board opened an investigation. Early information points to ice forming on the aircraft as it passed through turbulence; the crew had asked to climb from 35,000 to 37,000 feet before declaring an emergency, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, as reported by ColombiaOne.com. No cause has been determined.

The nine people who died

Adam Robinson, 45, a technology entrepreneur, and his wife, Helen Sharp, 40, were aboard with their two young children, Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, according to Tyla and ColombiaOne.com.

Also killed were the children's nanny, Ana Maria Cetina, and two friends of the family, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr, Tyla reported.

The pilots were identified as Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, the co-pilot and pilot-in-command, and Jeff Gregory, 55, per Tyla.

"She was very happy. She was truly happy because she had never been to the Bahamas, and even though she was working, she didn't see it as work. She enjoyed it," — Angie Ramirez Cetina, sister of Ana Maria Cetina, to The US Sun.

Who Ana Maria Cetina was

Cetina, who her family called Anita, was a 24-year-old Colombian woman working as the Robinson family's nanny, according to her family's own statement on GoFundMe. ColombiaOne.com reported her age as 23, and Tyla reported she was weeks from her 25th birthday — the outlets differ slightly on her exact age.

She trained as a biomedical engineer before coming to the United States "seeking opportunities and with the hope of building a future," her family wrote on the fundraiser page.

"She cared for Emma and Charlie with tenderness and dedication," the family wrote. "She shared their everyday moments, offered them comfort, and surrounded them with love. To her family, she was much more than a nanny: she was one of their own."

A video call minutes before the plane took off

Cetina's sister, Angie Ramirez Cetina, spoke with The US Sun from her home in Colombia about their final conversation, which happened just before the jet left Austin.

"We did a video call, she showed me the children, she showed me the plane," Angie told The US Sun. "She was very happy. She was truly happy because she had never been to the Bahamas, and even though she was working, she didn't see it as work. She enjoyed it."

Angie said she first learned something was wrong when crash footage began circulating online. "I saw the accident, I saw the flight path, and truthfully, I didn't want to accept that it might be my sister on the plane," she told The US Sun. Confirmation came the next morning. "My mom called me on Monday morning and confirmed to me that yes, it was the flight Ana Maria was on," Angie said.

What the GoFundMe is actually raising money for

Three days before November 8, Cetina's mother, Angelica, started a GoFundMe with a goal of $26,000, according to primetimer.com. The page says the money is meant to "support Ana María's family with the expenses following her passing and during the difficult months ahead."

The listed expenses are the family's airline tickets, visa processing, funeral costs, and shipping Cetina's belongings back to Colombia, where she was born and raised, per primetimer.com.

Reported totals vary by outlet and by day. Primetimer.com put the fund at more than $23,000 — 91 percent of the goal — from 178 donations in its first three days. BollywoodShaadis, publishing the same week, put the total closer to $19,000.

Worth being precise here: nothing in the family's own fundraiser language, as reported by these outlets, specifically says the family cannot afford to transport Cetina's remains home, or that the cost of returning her body — as opposed to her belongings — is the sticking point. The page lists funeral expenses and shipping her belongings; it does not spell out a body-repatriation line item or say the family is short specifically on that cost. We're reporting what the fundraiser actually says rather than filling in a detail that isn't there.

What the family has said

The family's statement on GoFundMe framed Cetina's death alongside the Robinsons': "At just 24 years old, Ana María Ramírez Cetina had a lifetime of dreams ahead of her. On November 1st, her life was tragically cut short in the plane crash that also claimed the lives of other beloved family members: Adam and Helen, and their beautiful children, Emma and Charlie."

They described the loss as one "no family should ever have to endure," and asked for help "without the added burden of financial worries." "No donation can bring Ana María back," they wrote. "But together we can show her family that her life left a lasting impact, that her kindness lives on in our memories, and that they don't have to face this pain alone."

What happens next

The NTSB's investigation into the Learjet 60 crash is ongoing, and no probable cause has been released. The GoFundMe for Cetina's family remains active, with its total changing day to day as donations come in; by the most recently published figures it sat somewhere between roughly $19,000 and $23,000 of a $26,000 goal.