What Happened
Aspiring Airline Pilot Earned Licence Before Driver's Permit
A 20-year-old aspiring airline pilot, Nathalia Filgueiras, has been identified as the copilot of a Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida, killing all nine people on board. Filgueiras had earned her private pilot’s licence at the age of 17 and had ambitions of becoming a commercial airline pilot. The crash is currently under investigation, with recordings of communications between the aircraft and air traffic controllers indicating that the crew had reported ice accumulation and turbulence before the jet began losing altitude rapidly. This incident was first reported by Unknown Source.