"I wanted to be by her side," Allan Filgueiras, a pilot who helped teach his daughter to fly, said at a news conference Friday, at times holding back tears.…
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PBS NewsHour ·
"I wanted to be by her side," Allan Filgueiras, a pilot who helped teach his daughter to fly, said at a news conference Friday, at times holding back tears. "Inside the plane. To help."
CBC News ·
The father of the 20-year-old co-pilot killed alongside eight others in a Florida Learjet crash said Friday he has repeatedly listened to her final radio transmissions, searching for answers and finding pride in how she handled the crisis.
Associated Press ·
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.