Helen Sharp died at 40 in the Learjet crash. Friends say she lived life to the fullest.

A private jet traveling from Austin to the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, killing all nine people aboard. Among the victims was Helen Sharp, a 40-year-old public relations professional and ceramicist, flying with her husband Adam Robinson, their children Emma and Charlie, their friends Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr, and their children’s nanny Anita Maria Cetina. Friends and family described Sharp as a talented ceramics artist and devoted mother and wife. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2009 and founded a boutique PR agency, Influential PR, in 2019. She opened a ceramics studio in Aspen, and had previously worked in Argentina and Taiwan.