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Learjet co-pilot's father remembers her as a hero

NBC News' report brings Allan Filgueiras' account of his daughter's final moments into the continuing investigation of the Florida crash.

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Father of young co-pilot killed in jet crash speaks out

Allan Filgueiras helped teach his daughter Nathalia to fly. After hearing her emergency radio calls from the Learjet that crashed near Palm Beach, he spoke of her composure.

"She made me so proud. She showed me what it is to be a hero," he says in NBC News' report.

The report by Tom Costello includes air traffic audio of the 20-year-old co-pilot declaring a Mayday and describing the aircraft's rapid descent. Photographs show Nathalia's aviation background, while her father, himself a pilot, describes the wish to have been beside her to help.

Alongside that remembrance is the family's effort to defend her professional reputation. Attorney Stuart Grossman points to her 1,300 hours of cockpit flight time and says: "The purpose of this is to preserve not just her memory, but her reputation."

Costello reports that Filgueiras and Captain Jeff Gregory encountered bad weather, turbulence and icing before the crash. Those conditions are part of NBC's account of the flight, not an established explanation for what brought the aircraft down.

The report also shows investigators working among the wreckage. According to Costello, the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation, including examination of the cockpit voice recorder, will take months.

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