The young co-pilot who died aboard the Learjet 60 plane this Sunday in Florida, United States, after plummeting on a Palm Beach highway, was identified as Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20 years old.
According to the young woman’s family, Gadelha Filgueiras was an American of Brazilian descent.
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Additionally, he had a license to pilot since he was 17 years old and had accumulated more than 1,300 flight hourshis family confirmed to CNN Brazil.
“She was an excellent girl: responsible and hard-working (…) She was the co-pilot and couldn’t make decisions,” he told CNN Brazil his mother, Camila Gadelha Corteleti.
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras Photo:Threads Nathalia Gadelha
The last message the young woman sent
The last text message that the young pilot sent before dying was revealed by her family. She sent this message to her boyfriend, Justin, approximately ten minutes before the crash.
As revealed to The New York Post Filgueiras’ stepfather, Thiago Corteleti, 44, the text was sent 10 minutes before crashing into sleep: “I think she sent a text message to her boyfriend at 12:40 pm and the accident happened at 12:50 pm,” he said.
The text said exactly: “I have turbulence, I have ice.”
In photographs shared on the young woman’s social networks, it can be seen that she frequently flew with her boyfriend.
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The audios of the last conversation between the co-pilot and the air traffic controller
Since this Sunday, the audios of the conversation that the young co-pilot had with the air traffic controller were revealed. She initially reported a layer of ice and turbulence. Then he asked permission to rise a few feet high and, Subsequently, he reported the emergency to the control tower.
“We are descending at 8,000 feet per minute, mayday, mayday! We are descending at 10,000 feet per minute,” he tells the controller with concern. “We are in an overspeed situation, descending at 20,000 feet per minute,” he later indicates.
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras showing a license in the cockpit of an airplane. Photo:EFE
“We are going to crash into the ground.”he announces later. “We’re going to crash! We’re going to die! We’re out of time!”were the last words he spoke over the radio just before falling to the ground.
Local media and the family of those affected They later confirmed the identities of the other 8 people who died in the accident.
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They are Adam Robinson and his wife Helen Sharp, who were also with their children Emma, 4, and Charlie, 2. Also on the aircraft were two friends of the couple: Charmi Fehr and Rachael Reed, and the nanny Anita Maria Cetina.
It was also reported that the captain of the plane was the experienced pilot Jeff Gregory, 55 years old.
“We are deeply grateful to the first responders, investigators and the Palm Beach County community for their care, and to all those who have reached out to us with love. Our hearts go out to the families of the pilots, who are grieving alongside us,” the families wrote in a joint statement.
Meanwhile, the investigation to determine the causes of the accident remains ongoing.
The other people who died in the plane crash in Florida. Photo:Social networks
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