Authorities have not released any names of the victims of the Learjet plane crash in Florida.
The Learjet 60 had departed Austin, Texas, on Sunday morning and was headed to the Bahamas when it crashed in a residential area of Palm Beach County. Despite being just 20, Filgueiras had accumulated around 1,300 hours of flying experience. She obtained her private pilot’s licence at the age of 17 in October 2023, before she had even secured her driver’s licence. Anthony Blackmon, an 18-year-old high school student who lives less than 100 yards from the crash site, told that he initially thought the area had been bombed after hearing the explosion.
Several residents living near the site were evacuated from their homes overnight, NY Post reported.
“We didn’t really see debris of a plane, but we did find body parts,” he said. All nine people aboard were killed. Witnesses describe gruesome scene at crash site Meanwhile, witnesses described a gruesome scene at the crash site, with debris scattered across an area spanning nearly half a mile. “We found a backbone, and there’s a picture of a hand going around. The plane seemed completely disintegrated; there were only small parts,” Blackmon added. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
A 20-year-old co-pilot aboard a Learjet that crashed in Florida, killing all nine people on board, texted her pilot boyfriend just minutes before the deadly accident, her family has revealed. Her stepfather, Thiago Corteleti, told the New York Post that Filgueiras had messaged her boyfriend, also a pilot, around 12:40 pm, just 10 minutes before the crash at approximately 12:50 pm.
“She just said, ‘I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice,'” Corteleti told, recalling the message she sent to her boyfriend. Audio from the aircraft’s final moments reportedly captured a man reciting the Lord’s Prayer as Filgueiras screamed. Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was in touch with her loved ones and air traffic control until the aircraft plunged to the ground in Palm Beach County on Sunday afternoon. Her co-pilot on Sunday’s flight has not yet been identified.