Learjet co-pilot in fatal Florida crash ID’d as Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, who got her license in high school

Source: New York Post

The doomed Learjet co-pilot heard pleading for help in harrowing air traffic control audio before the fiery Florida crash has been identified as Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras – a 20-year-old who got her pilot license while still in high school. Filgueiras’s mother, Camila, and her stepfather confirmed to The Post that she was the co-pilot flying a Learjet 60 from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it entered a steep nosedive – plummeting at over 20,000 feet per minute – and smashed into the ground in Palm Beach County on Sunday afternoon. The grieving mom said that her daughter, who would have turned 21 in January, had been working as a commercial pilot for nine months.