Father of young co-pilot killed in jet crash speaks out

Allan Filgueiras, a pilot who introduced his daughter Nathalia to the cockpit at just 12 years old, is speaking out following the tragic Learjet 60 crash in Palm Beach County, Florida, that claimed nine lives. Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, was serving as the co-pilot aboard the charter flight traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when the aircraft experienced severe turbulence, icing, and an catastrophic descent into Greenacres, Florida. Amid unimaginable grief, her father listened repeatedly to her final emergency radio transmissions—marvelling at her composure, grit, and professionalism as she called out airspeed and descent rates to air traffic controllers until the final seconds.