The co-pilot of a Learjet aircraft that crashed into a fireball in Palm Beach, Florida, texted her boyfriend that she was experiencing turbulence just moments before the plane went down, her family say.
Nathalia Filguerias, 20, was messaging her fellow pilot boyfriend about facing heavy weather in the minutes before the plane crashed on Sunday, killing nine people.
The young pilot’s family told the New York Post that before the crash, Filguerias told her boyfriend Justin: ‘I’ve got turbulence, I’ve got ice.’
Her family said she was a passionate aviator who obtained her pilot’s licence aged just 17, and she already had over
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