20-year-old pilot said 'we're managing the ice' before her Mayday call in the Florida Learjet crash that killed nine
Dashcam footage of the Learjet 60's impact near West Palm Beach, as Transport Secretary Sean Duffy called the crash "a horrific tragedy.A radar image posted on X shows the thunderstorm over Palm Beach County that the Learjet 60 flew into before nosediving, with the aircraft having departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas bound for the Bahamas.Footage posted on X shows what a witness described as looking nothing like a plane as the jet fell, the aircraft having plunged 34,000 feet in under a minute at a 60-degree bank angle.The crash left a crater in Military Trail, igniting a utility pole and scattering burning debris feet from passing cars and nearby homes in Greenacres, Palm Beach County.
Co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, had texted her boyfriend minutes before the Learjet 60 nosedived 20,000 feet into a Palm Beach County highway on Sunday, killing all nine on board. Her stepfather said she wrote that she had turbulence and ice. Meteorologists say the doomed aircraft flew directly into the path of a massive thunderstorm shortly before the fireball crash.
Filgueiras earned her private pilot licence at just 17, before she had even learned to drive.
New pictures show a massive crater gouged into the highway where the jet disintegrated on impact, with debris scattered across a wide area.
The plane was registered to an LLC that shares its famous address with businesses registered to both President Trump and Hillary Clinton.
