Tech tycoon's tragic last words to friend before fireball Learjet plane crash in Florida

Tech tycoon's tragic last words to friend before fireball Learjet plane crash in Florida Adam Robinson, 44, who died alongside his wife Helen Sharp, 40, and their two young children, told a close friend life had been going 'too well' just days before the family were killed in a plane crash A tech tycoon killed alongside his wife and two young children after a private jet nose-dived and crashed in Florida told a friend his life was "going too well" just days before the disaster. Multi-millionaire Adam Robinson, 44, died along with his wife Helen Sharp, 40, and their children, four-year-old Emma and two-year-old Charlie. Also on board the doomed jet was the family's nanny, Anita Maria Cetina, and two friends, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr. Pilot Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha, 20, were also killed after a distress call to air traffic control captured Nathalia saying "we're going to crash into the ground" while Mr Gregory could be heard reciting the Lord's Prayer. Adam, who co-founded email marketing platform Robly and launched Retention.com - a tech firm connecting e-commerce site visitors to their email addresses - had recently expressed gratitude to a friend over how well his life was going. Close pal Jesse Ouellette told TMZ that Adam had even jokingly said things were "going too well" as his business continued to flourish. The family were among nine killed after the plane flew through a severe storm and crashed in a fireball near a mobile home park in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, on Sunday. Paying tribute to Adam, Jesse said: "His loss will be deeply felt by the software founders who knew him as a friend and colleague. "He challenged the way things were done and was far ahead of his time. It's heartbreaking that we lost him so soon." Adam said on a recent podcast about his Aspen lifestyle that he felt like he was "living the dream." "I love the fact that I get to see my kids in the morning and the evening, and I don't have to travel for work that much, and I get to live in this place that's always been my dream," he told the ProfitLed podcast. "And my wife is super happy because she can be a full-time artist," he added. Thom Singer, CEO of the Austin Technology Council, said Adam "was part of the entrepreneurial fabric of Austin." His death comes after another Austin tech entrepreneur, Joshua Baer, was killed after a small jet crashed on a Texas highway in June. The co-pilot of Sunday's crash, Nathalia, earned her pilot's license in 2023 at just 17 years old, while still a senior at West Boca Raton Community High School, according to local reports. She was heard pleading for help in a harrowing call to air traffic control. "We're descending 8,000 – mayday, mayday – we're descending 10,000ft per minute," she said. She then screamed "we're going to crash into the ground" and "holy **** we're out of time", before the audio from the Learjet went silent. The plane was travelling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it slammed into the ground and exploded, leaving a massive crater near the entrance to a mobile home park in Greenacres. Around 600 residents near the crash site remain displaced, but only one injury was reported on the ground. A man who was driving close to the scene as the plane crashed suffered leg wounds, investigators said, but they weren't sure the extent of the injury. Investigators said on Monday that the plane likely started breaking apart before it crashed. The public were warned that debris from the aircraft could have spread far and wide. "We may find parts of the aircraft some distance away from the actual impact site," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Tom Chapman explained during a news conference. Jeff Guzzetti, a former investigator for the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said key components of the jet's tail may have been lost during the turbulence or as it nosedived, making the plane impossible to control. "That very well could explain the missile-like profile just before it hit the ground," he said. Weather conditions will be a major focus of the NTSB probe into the crash, investigators said.