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Three years before crash, young co-pilot spoke of earning pilot licence

BBC News •
November 02, 2026 • 08:18 PM
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US media have reported that one of the victims was the plane's 20-year-old copilot.

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US media have reported that one of the victims was the plane's 20-year-old copilot, Nathalia Filgueiras. In a 2023 interview with a local news affiliate of CBS News, Filgueiras spoke of training for her pilot licence while still a senior in high school. The Florida teen described her passion for flying and her ambition to become a commercial pilot. None of the victims in the crash have been officially named.

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CNN International
6d ago
He took her flying when she was 12. Now the father is mourning the copilot killed in the Florida Learjet crash | CNN

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Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was 12 when she started going up in planes while her father was at the controls, watching the ground fall away beneath them. By the time she was 17, she had her own pilot’s license, having fallen in love with flying just as her father had. ‌

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