The co-pilot who was heard screaming for help in chilling audio shortly before her aircraft crashed in a huge fireball on Sunday has been identified.
Family members have confirmed to the New York Post that 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha was the person in the audio, and one of nine people who lost their lives in the horrific crash.
The young woman grew up in Palm Beach County and was interviewed by local media after earning her private pilot's license at 17 in October 2023. This was before she even had her driver's license.
"I definitely do brag because people say, 'oh you can't drive,' and I'm like, 'yeah but I can fly,'" Gadelha told CBS12 in the 2023 interview.
"I like being different than everyone, so to me I think it's cool that it's not really an opportunity," Gadelha added. "I just didn't do it, and this is how it ended up. But I think it's cool.
"Some people think that it's weird that I can fly planes, but I can't drive a car; I mean, I can, but a lot of people think it's funny. I think it's funny, and I now want my [driver's] license really bad," she added.
Gadelha, who was a West Boca Raton High School senior at the time, said she began pilot lessons in 2020 and was also taught by her father.
Gadelha graduated from American Flyers, an Addison, Texas-based flying school with a branch in Pompano Beach, Florida.
She wanted to become a commercial airline pilot one day.
As TGP's Cassandra MacDonald reported, a $2 million Learjet 60 plunged from the sky in a high-speed dive on Sunday afternoon.
It slammed into a mobile home park in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, Florida, about nine miles from Mar-a-Lago.
The crash tore down power lines, left a large crater in the road, and erupted into a massive fireball that demolished at least one home.
Nine people were on board when it crashed. All have been confirmed dead.
The Learjet had departed from Austin, Texas, and was en route to the Bahamas before it crashed.
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