Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur and his family were on the ill-fated flight, which had 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras as co-pilot.
Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur and his family were on the ill-fated flight, which had 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras as co-pilot.
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras' friend Mikaela Schluth remembered the co-pilot killed in the Florida Learjet crash, saying ‘she was like sunshine’.
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was in touch with her family and air traffic control until the aircraft plunged to the ground in Palm Beach County on Sunday afternoon, November 1
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, told her pilot boyfriend she was encountering turbulence and ice shortly before the Learjet went down in Florida.
Filgueiras earned her license in 2023 when she was a 17-year-old senior at West Boca Raton Community High School, according to local news reports at the time.
Twenty-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who made the final radio transmissions, and 55-year-old Jeff Gregory, the pilot in command, were also killed in the crash.
The 20-year-old co-pilot heard in the Learjet’s heartbreaking final transmission posted an image of herself from the cockpit of a similar aircraft just months before.
Nathalia Gadelha, a 20-year-old aviator who earned her pilot’s licence at 17, was identified as co-pilot aboard a Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County.
Nathalia Filgueiras was co-piloting the Learjet 60 from Texas to the Bahamas when it crashed in Florida on Sunday
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