{"id":320337,"date":"2026-11-03T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320337\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:20:45","slug":"pilot-in-deadly-florida-plane-crash-jeffrey-gregory-had-ties-to-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320337\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot in deadly Florida plane crash, Jeffrey Gregory, had ties to Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/texas-jet-florida-crash-11-1-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s deadly jet crash in Florida<\/a> had ties to Pennsylvania, according to a flight company based in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Jeffrey Gregory, 55, was at the helm of a private Learjet 60 that nose-dived and crashed near a mobile home park in Palm Beach County. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/jet-crash-victims-palm-beach-county-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All nine people aboard were killed<\/a>, including his 20-year-old co-pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory briefly worked for East Coast Jets, a company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company said Gregory worked there in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our prayers go out to Jeff&#8217;s family, his fellow crew member, the passengers and everyone affected by this heart breaking tragedy,&#8221; East Coast Jets said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A social media page of Gregory&#8217;s listed his location as Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The Learjet took off from Austin, Texas, and was bound for the Bahamas before experiencing issues on Sunday, Nov. 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pilot-florida-plane-crash-ice-mayday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gregory was heard on radio calls<\/a>\u00a0telling air traffic control he was &#8220;managing the ice&#8221; before making distress calls.<\/p>\n<p>There was severe weather in the area at the time, CBS News reports.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pilot in Sunday&#8217;s deadly jet crash in Florida had ties to Pennsylvania, according to a flight company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5918,7243],"class_list":["post-320337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-florida","tag-plane-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}