Father of 20-year-old co-pilot in Florida Learjet crash finds pride in her final calls

The father of the 20-year-old co-pilot killed in Sunday's Learjet crash in Florida says he has listened to his daughter's final radio transmissions over and over. Allan Filgueiras told reporters Friday he has played them back, in his words, many times since the crash.

Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras was one of nine people who died when the aircraft went down. Her father is a pilot too, and he was digging for a reason the plane plunged from the sky. What he found instead, he said, was pride in the way his daughter worked the emergency.

The transmissions capture her voice in the cockpit as the situation unfolded — moments her father now knows by heart. Rather than answers about the cause, he described hearing a young pilot doing her job under pressure.

Investigators have yet to say what brought the Learjet down. That question still hangs over the crash, and it's the one Filgueiras wanted solved when he started listening.

For now, the story he tells is about his daughter: 20 years old, in the right seat, steady on the radio. Eight other people were on board with her, and all nine were lost.