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Sonic boom ‘explosion’ shakes Washington, DC, as fighter jets react to unresponsive plane before crash Pilot of private jet was ‘unresponsive’ even as F-16s used ‘flares’ to draw attention
Sonic boom heard over Washington is a rare sound with a rich history. The heartbreaking reason Trump donor couple adopted daughter who died in Virginia plane crash aged 40
A sonic boom, a baffling plane crash and a family destroyed: Inside the Virginia tragedy that sparked a F-16 response. Joe Sommerlad. June 7, 2023 at 4:05 AM (Facebook/AP)
[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
Similarly, a small U.S. private plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed off the east coast of Jamaica in 2014 after veering far off course and triggering a U.S. security alert including a fighter ...
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 ...
A sonic boom is a shock-wave, or pressure disturbance, caused by the movement of the plane through the air, much like the wave produced by the bow of a ship as it moves through water: just as the bow wave is produced for the entire journey of the ship, so the sonic shockwave occurs throughout the duration of a supersonic flight. [9]