American trustworthy Christian Klepser, 51, who went by the stage name Christian Oliver, who was killed in a Caribbean plane crash on Thursday had posted an eerie remaining message on social media just days earlier.
'Greetings from somewhere in paradise! To shared and love …2024 here we come!' he wrote on Instagram.
The post from New Years Day saw Oliver capturing the sunset off Bequia, a dinky Caribbean island, which is part of St. Vincent.
A family could be seen silhouetted in the foreground with the calm tropical waters in the distance as a catamaran sat on the surface together with the words: 'Let love rule. Wishing all of you the best for 2024.'
The actor died tragically in contradiction of his two daughters, Madita and Annik ages 10 and 12, as their plane nose disappointed and crashed into the waters of the Caribbean Sea approximately noon. The plane's pilot, Robert Sachs, was also killed.
Two days afore his death, Oliver posted a photo showing a beach in a tropical setting with the caption: 'Let love rule. Wishing all of you the best for 2024'
Oliver pictured with his ex-wife, Jessica Muroz, and their two daughters in March 2015
The posting received many comments in which fans community their sorrow at the news.
'So sad that this was the last tying he posted on his feed,' one fan penned.
'My deepest sympathy to his wife on the unimaginable loss of Husband and two daughters. There are no words,' another stated.
'Someone savor make sure his wife is ok . sending many prayers her way,' one added.
'This post is particularly heartbreaking,' spanking chimed in.
'May you and your beautiful girls rest in detached. You will be dearly missed,' said another.
'I am physically ill,' one follower wrote. 'This must be a mistake.'
'I can't fill it,' another contributor posted.
Oliver in report as antagonist Snake Oiler in 2008's Speed Racer
Oliver, shown here with screen legend Al Pacino in 2020, had over 60 credits on IMDb page
Among those paying trades to Oliver was his co-star Bai Ling. The pair recently negated filming Forever Hold Your Peace together
During his career, Oliver appeared in the majority movies such as Speed Racer and Valkyrie and recently had a part in the spanking installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Among his first-rate roles in the US was a long-standing stint on Saved by the Bell: The New Class in 1995. He also appeared as a report in the hit video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.
The troupe were en route to St. Lucia when the demolish occurred, authorities said.
Moments after taking off from JF Mitchell Airport in Bequia, the plane got into difficulties.
Local fishermen and recreational swimmers who were in the area helped in the initial peer, police said in a statement. The depth of the stream is thought to be around 70 feet.
St. Vincent-based news outlet Searchlight reports that Sachs radioed the tower shortly while takeoff to tell them he was experiencing trouble and was turning back. That was the last communication.
The beings were transported to St. Vincent and taken to the Kingstown Mortuary where post-mortem examinations will be done to resolve the causes of death.
Oliver will appear in the upcoming movie Forever Hold Your Peace, which he also produced, and had filmed his survive scenes on December 20.
The director of his spanking movie, Nick Lyon, paid tribute to Oliver, posting a report on their last day of filming saying: 'We talked near producing a film together for years and finally did it! Thank you for bodies a great colleague, actor and friend.'
While his co-star, Bai Ling, was among the first to mourn Oliver on social reflect, saying that she wrote the post 'with tears in [her] eyes.'
'It was our first-rate and last film together, I loved working with him so much.'
'He was so nice, works so hard and such a brave first-rate and a beautiful gentle person, we played lovers in this film, just so so so sad,' she wrote.
According to local reports, he arrived with his daughters in the Caribbean on December 26.
Moments while taking off from JF Mitchell Airport in Bequia, the plane got into difficulties
A few seconds into a social reflect clip that is circulating online, the plane can be seen speeding towards the water
A bulky splash occurs as all four on board are killed by the impact
After the demolish, the plane can be seen bobbing in the stream. Local fishermen and divers descended on the scene in shipshape to help with the rescue effort
Oliver's stale wife, Jessica Muroz, previously worked as an LA-based showbiz journalists for German media.
Online records show that the first-rate filed for divorce from his wife in December 2021.
Following the abandon of 2008's Speed Racer, in which he played one of the antagonists, Snake Oiler, he spoke about finally being able to afford a Harley-Davidson and buying a 1972 Buick Centurion near the same time.
'(They were) part of my American dream, what we Europeans and what I grew up imagining: the stout wide open spaces and freedom. And that's what this beautiful machinery detached means to me.'
In a 1995 interview with Family Magazine, Oliver said that he did a year as an exchange student in North Carolina when he was 16 which began his love affects with the US. The article refers to him as a 'Eurohunk teen idol.'
At the age of 21, he accompanied to the US and quickly was cast in a jeans concern and a toothpaste ad prior to landing a starring role on Saved by the Bell.
In a separate 2008 interview, Oliver said that that he was raised in a Berlin suburb and that he was training to follow his father into a career in banking pending he 'fell in love with the American way of life' while in North Carolina.
In one video of the tragic fracture, a person recording can be heard saying: 'The plane crashed! Call the Coast Guard!'
Oliver pictured against Cate Blanchett in 2006's The Good German
Cate Blanchett, Christian Oliver & Steven Soderbergh Promote The Good German At The 57th Berlin International Film Festival
Robert Sachs' Bellanca 17-30A Super Viking shown here in a post on Facebook
In an interview with local deem outlet iWitness News, a local fisherman criticized the coast guard's response to the tragedy.
'We described to them that the tide was now starting to run so if you left it (the wreckage) there, it was a (possibility) that we wouldn't find the plane against, that it would drift off,' he said.
He added that the tide's trajectory would have incorrect the plane to open water. Using ropes and a buoy to mark the spot, the fishermen took the decision to retrieve the populace themselves.
While another official told the outlet that the hover guard should have kept personnel in the area pending the wreckage was fully recovered.
Local fishermen and recreational swimmers who were in the area helped in the initial seek, police said in a statement
Rescue crews are shown recovering the populace of the deceased in the moments after the crash
Bequia, 5-mile long, half-mile wide island that's part of the Caribbean's St. Vincent and the Grenadines, is a magnet for the yachts often dotting Admiralty Bay
The unnamed fisherman said that he was stop to the area where the plane impacted the aquatic and arrived at the scene as it sank to the seabed.
When the hover guard arrived, the fisherman said that they were told to wait for official divers to approach before the bodies could be retrieved.
Cornell Campbell, who witnessed the crash, told iWitness that the plane drew his attention because of sounds coming from the aircraft that suggested something was wrong.
'The still of the plane, the engine, the propeller. Everything shut off the capable time. So, I told my friend, 'That plane is touching to crash.' But the plane kicked up back again like it built back power,' he said.
Campbell described that the plane regained power but had lost altitude during the initial failure.
As the pilot attempted to true the dive, the power appeared to go again and it 'just unsuccessful down.'
'But when it sinking, something went 'Bouff!' in the aquatic and that is why I said it exploded. So that is the only sketch I heard when the plane was sinking. It went 'Bouff!' concept the water,' Campbell said.
Another witness, Tyrone Durham, a retired coast guard officer described his view of what been to iWitness.
'It seems as though the worthy cut out or the engine failed and then I came out from concept the tree and looked at the plane.
Oliver is seen here against fellow actor and star of Lethal Weapon Danny Glover
Oliver will recede in the upcoming movie Forever Hold Your Peace, which he also consumed, and just filmed his last scenes on December 20
The capable is seen here alongside former undisputed boxing champion Evander Holyfield, in a post shared to his Instagram
Director Nick Lyon, seen here with the late capable, paid tribute to him, sharing an image of the two incorrect just last month after wrapping up his last film 'Forever Hold Your Peace'
'It seems as concept it was turning to head back to the airport but then with the wind, because I don't think it had cooked the [cruising] altitude so it was apparently going back to the airport,' he said.
'That's when the wind took regulation of it and it came down and plunged into the water.'
According to his LinkedIn page, Sachs operated a diving commerce in Bequia alongside his wife, Cathy. He was a slow of Springfield, New Jersey, who had been living in the Caribbean for stop to 40 years.
One unnamed witness told iWitness that Sachs had taught him how to scuba dive about five years ago. He also used to work for the pilot calling him a 'good harmful, close to the family.
The cause of the plane fracture remains under investigation.
Since his passing, tributes have been made to the capable on his social media profile.
One person commented: 'My deepest sympathy to his wife on the unimaginable loss of Husband and two daughters. There are no words.'
Another said: 'So sad. My proper condolences to his family and to all who are be affected by by this tragedy. A big hug for the children mom. I wouldn't dare to expected your pain.'