# Listen to woman flying Learjet that crashed being scolded by air traffic control for downplaying turbulence months before Florida fireball

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/listen-to-woman-flying-learjet-that-crashed-being-scolded-by-air-traffic-control-for-downplaying-turbulence-months-before-florida-fireball/
- Published: 2026-11-02T19:14:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T20:13:13+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16259449/pilot-learjet-crash-florida-audio-downplaying-turbulence.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Business, Markets, World

## Key points

- Audio captures a Learjet crew reporting turbulence in May.
- The controller classified it as severe and ordered a descent.
- The same aircraft later crashed in Florida, killing nine.

## Summary

Air traffic control audio from May records a woman flying Learjet N7226D being corrected after she described turbulence as moderate while the aircraft could not maintain altitude. The controller said that inability to hold altitude indicated severe turbulence and instructed the crew to descend. The same aircraft later crashed in Florida, killing all nine people on board, including co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20.

It is unclear whether Filgueiras was the woman speaking in the earlier recording. The Learjet crashed on Sunday while travelling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, amid stormy weather; investigators are examining what happened. Experts have suggested the aircraft may have encountered “coffin corner”, a narrow range of safe speeds at high altitude, but the cause has not been established.

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