Doomed Learjet passenger made devastating last call to sister before plane crashes, killing 9

The nanny who was killed aboard the doomed Learjet that plummeted and crashed in a fireball in Palm Beach, Fla., made a heartbreaking final call to her sister before takeoff.

Anita Ramirez Cetina, 24, called her sister Angie Ramirez Cetina before she, the two pilots, a millionaire technology entrepreneur, his wife, their two small children and two adult friends, took off for the Bahamas.

“We had a video call, she showed me the kids, she showed me the plane,” Angie Ramirez Cetina told the US Sun in Spanish from Colombia.

Anita Ramirez Cetina, 24, called her sister Angie before she, the two pilots, a millionaire tech entrepreneur, his wife, their two small children and two adult friends, took off for the Bahamas. Document to distribute to the family
A ball of fire rises into the sky after a Learjet crashed into a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, in this social media video screenshot on November 1. Aki Kuusisto via REUTERS

“She was very happy. She was really happy because she had never been to the Bahamas, and even though she was working, she didn’t consider it work. She loved it.”

Cetina, who was about to celebrate her 25th birthday when she died in the Nov. 1 tragedy, was a Colombian biomedical engineer who came to the United States two years ago.


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Angie Ramirez Cetina said her sister loved working for the Robinson family – husband and wife Adam Robinson and Helen Sharp, and their two children, Emma, ​​4, and Charlie, 2.

Angie Cetina said her sister loved working for the Robinson family (seen in an undated photo above) – husband and wife Adam and Helen Robinson, and their two children Emma, ​​4, and Charlie, 2. Family document

The flight, which departed from Austin, Texas, was headed to the tropical country to celebrate the birthday of Adam Robinson, founder of software companies Retention.com, MoltsSets and RB2B.

The other fallen passengers were close family friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr. Jeffrey Gregory, 55, and his co-pilot, Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, were also killed while flying the plane.

The plane suddenly crashed near a mobile home park in a terrifying plunge caught on camera.

“I saw the accident, I saw the trajectory of the flight and, frankly, I didn’t want to accept that it was my sister on the plane,” Angie Ramirez Cetina told the US Sun.

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