Learjet crash in Florida: co-pilot reported turbulence and ice
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tuko
Co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras told her partner that there was turbulence and ice aboard the Learjet 60 that crashed in Greenacres, Florida. She reportedly sent the message about 10 minutes before the 1 November crash, which killed nine people, WION reports, citing her father-in-law Thiago Corteleti.
Co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras sent her partner a message reporting turbulence and icing aboard the Learjet 60 that crashed in Greenacres, Florida, on 1 November, Tuko reports. Her father-in-law, Thiago Corteleti, said the text had been sent about 10 minutes before the accident.
“I have turbulence, I have ice,” the 20-year-old pilot reportedly wrote at around 12.40pm, according to Tuko, citing a WION report and her father-in-law. The crash killed nine people, including Nathalia. Pilot of jet that crashed in Florida reported turbulence.
Nathalia’s family said she had logged more than 1,300 flight hours. She obtained her private pilot’s licence in 2023, aged 17, while a student at West Boca Raton High School in Florida. She worked as a commercial pilot, according to Tuko.
The NTSB, the US transport safety investigation agency, is investigating the crash.
