Doomed Learjet co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras texted boyfriend minutes before deadly Florida crash

[Vato]

Sad. She was only 20-years-old. the ATC audio is hard to listen to. 9 dead in total.

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Exclusive | Doomed Learjet co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras texted boyfriend just minutes before deadly crash

“She just said, ‘I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice,'” her stepfather said.

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Doomed Learjet co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras texted boyfriend just minutes before deadly crash​

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Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXLYbYVthQ​

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PALM SPRINGS, Florida — The young co-pilot on a doomed Learjet texted her fellow pilot boyfriend to say she was experiencing turbulence just minutes before the plane crashed in Florida, killing all onboard, her heartbroken family told The Post.​

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Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, was in communication with her loved ones and with air traffic control up until the moment the plane nosedived and hit the ground at speed in Palm Beach County on Sunday afternoon.​

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“She texted her boyfriend, I think, at 12:40 p.m. and the accident was at 12:50 p.m.,” Filgueiras’ stepfather, Thiago Corteleti, 44, told The Post from his home in Florida.​

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Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, has been identified as one of the co-pilots in the fatal Florida crash.​

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“She just said, ‘I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice,'” he added.​

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Despite her young age, the 20-year-old pilot already had some 1,300 hours of flying experience, her proud family revealed.​

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Filgueiras frequently flew with her boyfriend and often shared pictures and videos of the young couple in the sky.​

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A massive crater seen on the ground after the Learjet crashed in Greenacres, Fla., on Nov. 1, 2026, killing nine people.​

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Her co-pilot in Sunday’s flight has not been identified. He appears to be heard reciting the Lord’s Prayer in harrowing audio of their final seconds as Filgueiras screams about them plummeting to their deaths.​

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A Learjet 60 carrying nine people crashes in a South Florida neighborhood on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026.​

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Filgueiras, who grew up in Palm Beach County, was previously featured in local media when she got her private pilot’s license at just 17 back in October 2023 — before she even had her driver’s license.​

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“I definitely do brag because people say, ‘Oh, you can’t drive,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I can fly,'” she told CBS12 in an interview at the time.​

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Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, poses in an undated photo.​

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None of the other passengers on board the jet, which left Austin, Texas, on Sunday morning bound for the Bahamas, have been identified.​

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Generated image done in poor taste of a female pilot screaming and a male pilot praying in in the cockpit of a jet.​

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RIP

 

[Vato]

From The New York Times...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/learjet-crash-florida-palm-beach.html

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What to Know About the Florida Plane Crash That Killed 9​

A small jet plummeted to the ground on Sunday, exploding into a fireball and killing everyone on board. The authorities did not immediately release information about the victims.​

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Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was identified as the co-pilot who made the distress call seconds before the Learjet smashed into the ground of a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida.​

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The authorities are investigating why a private jet carrying nine people plunged from the sky on Sunday afternoon, falling at a rate of 20,000 feet per minute before crashing into a roadway outside Palm Beach County, Fla.​

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Everyone on board was killed, the authorities said. They have not released information about the victims. One of the pilots was a 20-year-old aviator named Nathalia Filgueiras, according to her mother, Camila Corteleti.​

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The plane, a Learjet 60, was traveling from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when it crashed in a residential area, showering the neighborhood in debris and forcing the authorities to evacuate hundreds of residents.​

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Here’s what we know.​

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What happened?​

Radio traffic between the pilot and air traffic control in Miami indicated that the plane was encountering “light, clear ice that is manageable” on Sunday afternoon, as well as “moderate turbulence.”​

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A pilot asked if she could climb to 37,000 feet, presumably to fly above the turbulent air. But moments later, she declared “mayday” to air traffic controllers, indicating a life-threatening emergency.​

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The plane was “descending 20,000 feet per minute,” she screamed.​

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“We’re going to crash into the ground,” she added.​

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At a news conference on Sunday, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said that footage of the crash, captured on dashboard cameras, showed what “looked like a missile going down.”​

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The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board said they would be investigating. The N.T.S.B. has started documenting the crash scene, an agency official said during a Monday afternoon news conference in Florida.​

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Investigators have not yet recovered a cockpit voice recorder or determined whether one was on the plane.​

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Local officials said on Sunday that they were evacuating about 600 residents in the small community of trailer homes near the impact zone, where smoldering chunks of metal ignited small fires.​

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It did not appear that anyone on the ground was injured, officials said.​

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Ms. Filgueiras, of Boca Raton, Fla., had logged more than 1,300 hours of flight time and earned her pilot’s license at 17, Ms. Corteleti said. She said her daughter had worked for Upper Jets, a private charter firm based in Fort Lauderdale.​

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The horrific crash was caught on a vehicle’s rear camera.​

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What are experts saying?​

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Aviation safety experts were studying clues such as the plane’s rapid loss of altitude and a pilot’s mention of ice.​

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A pilot was indicating that the “plane was uncontrollable,” said Steven Arroyo, a retired United Airlines captain who listened to an audio recording of that pilot’s conversation with air traffic controllers.​

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Mary Schiavo, an aviation lawyer and former inspector general for the Transportation Department, said that ice buildup on a plane’s wings could disrupt airflow and reduce lift. That could be consistent with how the plane dropped from the sky so suddenly.​

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“Icing can be so severe it can overcome and stall the plane,” said Ms. Schiavo, who reviewed publicly available flight data and videos posted on social media.​

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“That is a plane not descending, but a plane falling,” she said.​

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Adam Robinson, his wife Helen, and their children Emma and Charlie pose in a family photo. The Robinson family were riding in the Learjet that crashed in Florida.​

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What did witnesses see?​

Esteban Ruiz, a resident of the trailer home community near the crash site, said he had been relaxing on Sunday afternoon when he heard a loud noise.​

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“I thought maybe it was lightning,” he said, adding that he also heard what he thought was rain pelting his roof. It was actually metal debris from the plane or its impact. Mr. Ruiz said he rushed outside and saw a chaotic scene and a crater in the ground.​

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Stephanie Platts, who also lived near the crash site, said she had been sitting on her patio with family members when she heard what sounded like a car crash. Ms. Platts said her mobile home caught on fire, caused by flying debris.​

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Neighbors tried to help her put out the flames. She said she saw human remains scattered around her.​

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“Everything was engulfed in flames,” Ms. Platts said, “and then after the flames, was like rain of metal.”​

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Filgueiras earned her wings at age 17, while she was still in high school.​

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[Hondros]

 

[Hondros]

You have to blame the pilot for not going around the storm. They tried to go over it, but the storm rose from 20,000 feet to 40,000 feet, they started to fall after reaching 37,000 feet.
Florida has to take the blame too, fuck that shit.

 

[Hondros]

"Commercial jetliners typically cruise at an altitude of 31,000 to 42,000 feet"

• • Fuel Efficiency: The air is thinner at higher altitudes. This creates less aerodynamic drag on the aircraft, allowing the plane to fly faster while burning significantly less fuel.
  • Avoiding Weather: Most traditional weather patterns—like heavy rain, thunderstorms, and severe turbulence—occur in the lower layer of the atmosphere (the troposphere). Cruising higher up allows planes to fly above or clear of most stormy conditions.
  • Engine Optimization: Jet engines operate most efficiently in cold temperatures and thin air, which are both found at these high altitudes.

 

[Hondros]

Yep, Florida.

 

[Vato]

You have to blame the pilot for not going around the storm. They tried to go over it, but the storm rose from 20,000 feet to 40,000 feet, they started to fall after reaching 37,000 feet.
Florida has to take the blame too, fuck that shit.

I don't know enough about flying but it sounds like the weather is mostly to blame with how fast I've heard storms can develop out of nowhere in places like Florida. Still though since this kind of thing seems very rare it won't be surprising to find out the pilot fucked up. Him saying the Lord's Prayer is probably just knowing it was over but maybe he also realized too late what he should've done earlier to avoid it.

Sad all around.

 

[Hondros]

Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtizFtfrHdg
From another incident in the Spring with the same crew. The ATC scolded them for not reporting correctly how much turbulence they were dealing with.
I'm posting this because of the commenter here:
"Apparently declaring severe turbulence triggers a bunch of paperwork and inspections to ensure that the plane did not encounter any structural damage. If this crew had a tendency to encounter severe turbulence but call it moderate to avoid inspections, then that might have contributed to their horizontal stabilizer snapping off during their final flight. In any case, this was a tragedy, but I hope that investigations help educate other aviators to avoid such catastrophes in the future."

 

[Vato]

3 minute and 33 second reconstruction replay of the crash with the uncensored ATC audio: