{"id":445324,"date":"2026-11-02T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445324\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:48:23","slug":"victims-of-florida-plane-crash-include-a-20-year-old-who-got-her-pilots-license-as-a-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445324\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of Florida plane crash include a 20-year-old who got her pilot’s license as a teen"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 20-year-old woman with a pilot’s license was among nine people killed when a small jet crashed and exploded in South Florida, her family said.<\/p>\n

Camila Corteleti told the New York Post and New York Times that her daughter, Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, was the copilot flying a Learjet from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, Sunday when it crashed and exploded near West Palm Beach with eight other people aboard.<\/p>\n

Filgueiras earned her license in 2023 when she was a 17-year-old senior at West Boca Raton Community High School, according to local news reports at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her pilot’s license showed she had the rating to fly the jet but not to be in command of the flight.<\/p>\n

The Palm Beach County School District paid for her license as part of the high school’s specialized aviation academy, in which students practice flying on simulators and drones.<\/p>\n

“Some people think that it’s weird that I can fly planes, but I can’t drive a car,” Filgueiras told WPEC-TV in 2023. “I think it’s funny.”<\/p>\n

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