THE Indiana Jones actor who died in a tragic plane crash posted a heartbreaking message on Instagram just two days before his death.
Christian Oliver, 51, died alongside his two daughters aged 10 and 12 when the plane went down off the coast of a Caribbean island.
His last post showed a “paradise” beach sunset scene with text written across the top that read: “Let love rule. Wishing all of you the best for 2024.”
The post was captioned: “Greetings from somewhere in paradise! To community and love …2024 here we come!”
Other photos on his account show Christian on various movie sets and rubbing shoulders with famous faces actors like Al Pacino and Danny glover.
The plane’s pilot also died alongside Oliver and his children, Madita and Annik.
The actor appeared in several big screen hits including Saved By The Bell and Valkyrie.
The horror plane crash happened around noon on Thursday, off the coast of Bequia.
The small island is part of St Vincent in the Caribbean.
He is tragically set to appear soon in a film called Forever Hold Your Peace, which he stopped shooting in late December.
The film’s director, Nick Lyon, paid tribute to the star online and wrote: “We talked about producing a film together for years and finally did it! Thank you for being a great colleague, actor and friend”.
Fellow actor, Bai Ling, also wrote a heartfelt tribute to her co star and was among the first to mourn Oliver on social media.
She said she that she wrote the post “with tears in [her] eyes.”
It read: “It was our first and last film together, I loved working with him so much.’
“He was so nice, works so hard and such a brave actor and a beautiful gentle person, we played lovers in this film, just so so so sad.”
According to local reports, he arrived with his daughters in the Caribbean on December 26.
Local reports said he arrived with his children in the Caribbean on December 26 after filming.
The group were reportedly heading for St Lucia when their jet crashed not long after taking off from an airport in Bequia.
Footage of the horrific smash taken by a passer-by can be heard saying “The plane crashed! Call the Coast Guard!”.
The actor filed for divorce from his ex-wife, LA-based journalist Jessica Muroz, in December 2021.
Pilot Robert Sachs contacted the tower shortly after taking off to let them know the jet was in trouble and that he was turning around.
This was the last communication from the plane according to local reports.
The water around the crash site is reportedly only around 70 feet, and locals helped emergency services search the water.
One local fisherman slammed the coastguard’s efforts following the tragedy.
He told local outlet iWitness News: “We explained 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 again, that it would drift off.”
The unnamed fisherman was close to the crash site and arrived there as the jet sank.
Several of the fishermen close by were then going to use ropes and a buoy to retrieve the bodies from the water themselves.
