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The co-pilot who died in a horrific private jet crash in Florida has been identified as a 20-year-old woman who earned her pilot’s license before graduating high school.<\/p>\n
Nathalia Gadelha was identified by her mother and stepfather as one of the nine people who died when a Learjet 60 plummeted from the sky Sunday and burst into flames in Palm Beach County, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n
Nathalia was just 17 when she earned her private pilot’s license while attending West Boca Raton High School … having started flight lessons in 2020 and learning from her father.<\/p>\n
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Her training was funded through her school district’s Aviation Academy … and she went on to graduate from American Flyers flight school while pursuing her dream of becoming a commercial airline pilot.<\/p>\n
In a 2023 interview, Nathalia revealed she’d already logged 88 hours in the air … and later shared that she and her boyfriend had earned multiple aviation qualifications before turning 21.<\/p>\n
As for the deadly crash … the jet was traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it suddenly went into a terrifying nosedive, with flight data showing it was dropping more than 20,000 feet per minute.<\/p>\n
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The plane slammed into the ground near a mobile home park, erupting into a massive fireball and killing all nine people aboard.<\/p>\n
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating what caused the crash.<\/p>\n
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