{"id":950799,"date":"2026-11-03T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950799\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:22:16","slug":"nfl-star-joe-mixon-devastated-after-learning-he-flew-on-doomed-learjet-with-same-pilots-weeks-before-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950799\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL star Joe Mixon \u2018devastated\u2019 after learning he flew on doomed Learjet with same pilots weeks before deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time Pro Bowl running back Joe Mixon is reeling after learning he flew on the very same Learjet \u2014 with the same two pilots \u2014 just weeks before it crashed in Florida on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mixon, 30, was \u201cabsolutely devastated\u201d by the crash that killed nine people, he wrote in a heartbreaking tribute post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI flew on that exact aircraft last month with those same two pilots,\u201d the former Cincinnati Bengal wrote. \u201cThey were incredible professionals and genuinely wonderful people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absolutely devastated by yesterday\u2019s tragic plane crash in Florida and the loss of all nine lives. I flew on that exact aircraft last month with those same two pilots. They were incredible professionals and genuinely wonderful people. Hearing the young woman\u2019s story and learning\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u26a1\ufe0fPrimetime!!!\u26a1\ufe0f (@Joe_MainMixon) November 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Mixon singled out 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras<\/a>, saying her story had touched him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHearing the young woman\u2019s story and learning about the bright future she had ahead of her makes it even more heartbreaking that her life was cut so short,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Mixon offered his prayers to the families of everyone aboard, calling the crash a \u201ctragic reminder of how fragile life is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLove on your loved ones while you can, because you never know what tomorrow may bring,\u201d he wrote, closing his tribute.<\/p>\n

Filgueiras was co-piloting the Learjet 60 alongside 55-year-old pilot Jeff Gregory on a flight from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

NFL star Joe Mixon honored the nine victims of a Florida Learjet crash after realizing he flew on the same plane with its pilots weeks earlier. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mixon singled out 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, saying her story had touched him. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The young aviator, who grew up in Palm Beach County, made local headlines in October 2023 when she earned her private pilot\u2019s license at 17 while she was still in high school \u2014 before she even had a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old had been flying commercially for nine months and had logged 1,300 hours in the air before her death, her heartbroken family told The Post.<\/p>\n

The pilots had asked to climb to roughly 37,000 feet to get above bad weather, reporting icing and turbulence before the jet entered a steep nosedive \u2014 plummeting more than 20,000 feet per minute.<\/p>\n

The Learjet 60 was carrying nine people when it crashed in a South Florida neighborhood on Sunday. Aki Kuusisto via Storyful<\/p>\n

The Learjet 60 nose-dived into a road in Greenacres, a Palm Beach neighborhood, leaving nine people on board dead after the crash. Mario Moreno via Storyful<\/p>\n

The jet ultimately crashed into a mobile home park in Palm Beach County, knocking down power lines and gouging an enormous crater into the ground.<\/p>\n

Filgueiras can be heard screaming in air traffic control audio as she radioed a controller moments before the crash, while Gregory can be heard reciting the Lord\u2019s Prayer in the final seconds.<\/p>\n

She had also texted her boyfriend, Justin, just 10 minutes before the crash, telling him they had hit turbulence and were dealing with icing.<\/p>\n

The passengers killed in the horrifying crash<\/a> included multimillionaire tech exec Adam Robinson, 44, his wife, Helen Sharp, and their two young children, Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2, Robinson\u2019s brother confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n

Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, has been identified as one of the co-pilots in the fatal Florida crash. Threads\/Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras<\/p>\n

Adam Robinson, his wife Helen, and their children Emma and Charlie pose in a family photo. The Robinson family were riding in the Learjet that crashed in Florida. Family handout<\/p>\n

Family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr and the family\u2019s nanny, Anita Maria Apellido Cetina, were also killed.<\/p>\n

Federal investigators have not determined what caused the jet to plummet<\/a>, but authorities said Monday it was flying through temperatures of minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

The plane began to break apart before impact, scattering debris across a half-mile radius, the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Investigators haven\u2019t determined whether the plane had a cockpit voice recorder \u2014 or whether the device survived the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Pro Bowl running back Joe Mixon is reeling after learning he flew on the very same Learjet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[56941,64,63,2755,20790,593,155144,85,3780],"class_list":["post-950799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-airplanes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-florida","tag-joe-mixon","tag-nfl","tag-plane-crashes","tag-sports","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}