Learjet crew’s distress calls and co-pilot’s final minutes

Reports focus on newly released air traffic control recordings and a friend’s account of co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras’s final call. The available evidence gives more detail about her experience and the crash than about the recordings themselves.

• A report says newly released air traffic control recordings captured urgent mayday calls from the Learjet 60 crew.· 1 source
• A friend said co-pilot Nathalia Filgueiras stayed composed while relaying information to air traffic control as the plane descended.· 1 source
• The reports describe a crash near South Florida that killed at least nine people; one identifies the flight as en route from Austin to the Bahamas.· 1 source