Unresponsive small plane over Washington causes military jet to scramble, later crashes in Virginia

Sama_El
Published on Jun 5, 2023
A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said. The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region.

Hours later, police said rescuers had reached the site of the plane crash in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no survivors were found.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m.

For more: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/washington-dc-sonic-boom-fighter-jet-small-plane-scramble/507-9e383bf2-7e07-4414-9a77-3a2d84b134ce

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