Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
18%
3 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
119
Other
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Flying privately wasn’t just a one-off perk for Adam Robinson – it was “part of my identity,” the slain tech executive once admitted.
asserted
executive → fly → identity
The 44-year-old Texas business mogul’s doomed passion for private aviation was captured in a resurfaced podcast clip that was recorded years before he, his wife and two young children — and five others — were wiped out when a Learjet 60 crashed into a Florida street Sunday.
asserted
Learjet → doom → street
Robinson recalled that he initially felt unworthy of bypassing the main terminal during an April 2023 episode of his business podcast, Ten Years in the Making, while interviewing Lolita Petrossov, co-founder of the on-demand private jet charter company JetSmarter.
asserted
he → recall → company
“I’m sure a lot of people have no idea what JetSmarter is or was,” said Robinson, a former banker who later ran multimillion-dollar software companies Retention.com and RB2B.
“I had these Wall Street friends and hedge fund guys and whatever else, and some of my very rich friends were using it and I just assumed that it was inaccessible to me, you know, because they were almost using it as like this status symbol.
asserted
they → ’m → symbol
“You’d be sitting at a dinner table and then a guy would whip out his phone and he’d be like, ‘Do you guys want to go to Vegas tomorrow morning?’
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guys → sit → Vegas
Like, we can go on a PJ,” he continued, using the acronym for a private jet.
asserted
he → go → jet
“And it’s like, yeah, actually, that sounds amazing.”
asserted
that → ’ → ?
The Austin-based entrepreneur – who previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, according to his LinkedIn profile – said he soon started flying charter jets regularly.
uncertain
he → base → jets
“And it was this feeling that I got of, like, ‘Wow, I can actually fly private too.’
asserted
I → get → that
“It became part of my identity,” he said.
asserted
he → become → identity
Robinson was instantly killed alongside his wife Helen Sharp, 40, and their kids – Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2 – when Learjet 60 traveling from Texas to the Bahamas instantly plummeted almost 30,000 feet and completely disintegrated upon impact outside of a trailer park in Palm Beach.
asserted
Learjet → kill → Beach
Heartbreakingly, Robinson had reportedly been telling friends that his life was “going too well” in the weeks leading up to the tragedy.
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life → tell → tragedy
He also posted an eerie message about plane crashes just months ago.
asserted
He → post → crashes
“You don’t need to crash a plane to learn to fly … and you don’t need VC to build a business,” he wrote in an April X post.
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he → need → post
Robinson’s friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr, nanny Anita Maria Apellido Cetina were aboard the ill-fated flight, as well as pilot Jeff Gregory and young co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, who got her pilot’s license while still in high school.
asserted
who → get → school
The plane began to pick up ice and hit heavy turbulence before it exploded into a fireball and completely disintegrated on impact, scattering debris over a half-mile radius, authorities said Monday.
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authorities → begin → radius
Officials are still investigating the cause of the crash, but aviation expert Justin Crabbe told The Post that the pilots chose to fly through a dangerous storm — then attempted a risky escape that may have doomed them.
uncertain
that → investigate → them
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