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The father of the co-pilot who died along with eight others when her Learjet crashed in Florida feels immense pride when he listens to his daughter's heartbreaking final radio transmissions to try to figure out why it plunged from the sky. Twenty-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras started out calmly reporting that some ice was building up on the plane on Sunday as they flew into a thunderstorm and turbulence tossed the Learjet up and down by 700 feet.

Investigators are beginning the lengthy process of determining why a business jet plummeted from the sky in Florida.

Investigators say they found a piece of the Learjet that slammed into the ground in Florida miles from the crash site. Nine people on board were killed when the jet crashed into a residential area of Greenacres, near West Palm Beach, on Sunday afternoon.

Investigators said a private jet that left Austin-Bergstrom International Airport bound for the Bahamas entered a rapid descent after its crew reported icing and turbulence.

There is no evidence this South Florida plane crash footage was generated with artificial intelligence.

The victims of a Sunday plane crash in Florida included a 20-year-old woman who got her pilot's license while still in high school. Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was among nine people who died in the crash near West Palm Beach. Filgueiras earned her license in 2023 while a senior at West Boca Raton Community High School.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Thursday. The controller had given a wind advisory to another flight just minutes earlier but did not inform the Amazon pilots.

For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast, according to flight information.

The wife of a man killed when an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport is suing for wrongful death.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz identified the five people who died in a deadly cargo plane crash at a press conference on Tuesday.

A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, minutes after take off from Fort Lauderdale Executive airport.

In their own words: What frustrated Pembroke Pines residents wanted to tell Broward County and North Perry airport officials about crashes and safety at a town hall in August. Public comment was not allowed, but WLRN obtained cards they submitted instead.