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Jet may have broken apart before Florida crash, officials say, as family named among victims

Adam Robinson, Helen Sharp, and their two children - Emma, four, and Charlie, two - died after the plane nosedived.

BBC World•

Investigators believe parts of a private jet which crashed in Florida and killed all nine on board may have broken off in the air.

The Learjet 60 was bound for the Bahamas from Austin, Texas when it nosedived into a multi-lane highway and exploded on impact.

A tech entrepreneur and his young family, as well as the 20-year-old copilot, were among those who died on Sunday.

The pilot was named in media reports as Jeffery Gregory, while Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, who earned her pilot's licence when she was 17, was reported to be the copilot.