Anita Cetina worked as a nanny for millionaire tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife, Helen Sharp, when she boarded the doomed Learjet flight to take care of their two children
11:26 ET, 08 Nov 2026Updated 11:52 ET, 08 Nov 2026
Photos from the fundraiser for Anita Cetina’s grieving family show the heartwarming relationship between the nanny and the two youngest victims of the Learjet crash(Image: gofundme)
The family of the nanny aboard the doomed Learjet flight has launched a fundraiser and already raised over $20,000 to help her family after their “unimaginable loss”.
Anita Cetina, 24, was on the Learjet flight traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas with her employer’s family when the aircraft suddenly plummeted out of the air, crashing in Palm Beach, Florida. Millionaire tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife, Helen Sharp, and their children Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, were also on the plane.
Cetina’s family has made a GoFundMe page to raise money to cover expenses following her passing. The fundraiser also includes photos of the nanny hugging Charlie and Emma, showing their close relationship.
“She cared for Emma and Charlie with tenderness and dedication,” the fundraiser read. “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.”
Cetina’s sister, Angie, revealed that she spoke with her sister on the phone just before takeoff. We did a video call; she showed me the children; she showed me the plane,” Angie told The U.S. Sun.
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Cetina had been a nanny for the family aboard the doomed flight(Image: gofundme)
“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.”
Outside of nannying, Cetina was a biomedical engineer who came to the U.S. from Colombia, her family said. “No donation can bring Ana María back. 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.”
Her family said she treated the children with tremendous care(Image: eyJpdiI6IklMTFkwYU8ycU1HQUJGdURIeDFwOXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiMkQxS2JkSGxncVUwYkxQS3pHWjZBTEJOakE2U1ZuS2pWcG1IaHUrbkY3cGJKUTJMRmVWTURCWHVFbHFnUXpjUVk2b0p0S0lRRENlVUlLWldNSVVMa3c9PSIsIm1hYyI6ImM3M2MxNjYzN2Uw)
At the time of writing, the GoFundMe has raised $20,500 of a $26,000 goal.
The private jet careened into the ground last week, leaving a deep crater and burning debris just a few feet away from nearby homes and businesses, officials said.
Video from a passing vehicle shows the jet crashing on a busy roadway before bursting into flames. “It was a cataclysmic plane crash,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. It looked like a missile going down.”
Co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, made a mayday call to air traffic control as the plane rapidly descended.
“722 Bravo Delta, we’re descending 8,000. Mayday, Mayday, we’re descending 10,000 feet per minute!” she was heard yelling in the audio.
Filgueiras kept updating air traffic control on the plane’s speed and altitude before warning that they were about to “crash” and were “out of time.”
Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, died with Jeff Gregory, 55, when the jet lost control(Image: Chris Kirk/Facebook)
The jet descended 27,000 feet over the course of one minute, just before flight tracking data was cut off, according to ADS-B Exchange.
There were scattered storms in the area at the time, and the plane had passed through a stronger storm cell just a few minutes before it began descending, but it’s unclear if the storm played a role in the crash.
Also on the flight were Robinson’s friends, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr. The pilot-in-command, Jeff Gregory, 55, could be heard reciting the Lord’s Prayer moments before the crash.
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