One of the two pilots involved in the fatal Bombardier Aerospace Learjet 60 crash has been identified as 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who reportedly received her pilot’s license while she was still attending high school.
As reported by The New York Post , Filgueiras’ identity was confirmed by her mother, Camila, and her stepfather, Thiago Corteleti, who said she was the co-pilot in the Learjet 60 that was en route to the Bahamas from Austin, Texas, when it crashed in Palm Beach County in South Florida on Sunday (Nov. 1).
Her mother added that Filgueiras would have turned 21 in January, and had earned her pilot license when she was still in high school at 17. At the time of the crash, she had been working as a commercial pilot for roughly nine months and had 1,300 hours of flying experience.
“I wanted her to live her dream, but I knew that her dream was going to be the thing that would take her away from me,” her mother told the Post. “I knew that a plane was gonna take her away from me.…