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. Twenty-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was flying as co-pilot on the Learjet 60 travelling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas when it plunged towards the ground at high speed and.