20-yr-old killed in plane crash earned pilot licence at 17, even before driver's licence in US

The 20-year-old co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who was among nine victims of a plane crash in the US, earned her licence in 2023 when she was a 17-year-old senior at a high school, reports said. She made news headlines for getting her private pilot's licence even before she had her driver's licence. She was handling communications on the plane.