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SONIC BOOM: People in Annandale, Virginia, heard a sudden sonic boom on Sunday when F-16 planes intercepted an unresponsive aircraft that eventually crashed near the George Washington National Forest.
DC stunned, mysterious plane crash and family ‘gone’: Story behind weekend sonic boom VIDEO: F-16 causes sonic boom in DC area Monday 5 June 2023 14:38 , Gustaf Kilander
A sonic boom that rattled residents in the Washington, D.C., area Sunday was caused by F-16 fighter jets scrambling to intercept an unresponsive small plane that later crashed in rural Virginia ...
[1]: 2 [NTSB 1] The plane had previously entered the no-fly zone over Washington, D.C., and was intercepted by F-16 fighter jets before it crashed. A preliminary report was released by the National Transportation Safety Board on June 21, 2023, and the investigation into the crash is ongoing as of August 2023.
Victims named as Adina Azarian, 49, her two-year-old daughter Aria, pilot Jeff Hefner, and nanny Evadnie Smith
No survivors were found at the crash site, Virginia state police said. The jet fighters created a sonic boom over the U.S. capital as they pursued the errant Cessna Citation, officials said ...
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years.
Attention on the crash and its cause was heightened by its unusual flight path over Washington, D.C. and a sonic boom caused by military aircraft heard across the capital, and parts of Maryland ...