The sonic booms were caused by F-16 fighter jets scrambled from Joint Base Andrews to intercept a private jet that breached restricted airspace over the capital.
NORAD’s statement also added that the fighters also deployed flares to draw the attention of the Cessna pilot, which may have been visible from the ground, but the Cessna eventually crashed near the George Washington National Forest in Virginia.The crashed aircraft was identified by officials as a Cessna 560 Citation V—designed to carry between seven and 11 passengers. The plane took off from the city of Elizabethton in Tennessee and was scheduled to land at an airport in Long Island, New York.
from FlightAware shows that the plane reached Long Island before turning around and flying straight over the Washington D.C. region, before crashing in Virginia.At the time when the jets were scrambled, President Joe Biden was playing a game of golf with his brother at a course near Andrews base. White House officials said the sound of the aircraft’s sonic boom was “faint” at the location where the president was and he was later briefed about the crash of the Cessna.
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