The FAA told FOX 5 that a Cessna citation has crashed into a mountainous terrain in Southwest Virginia.
"A Cessna Citation crashed into mountainous terrain in a sparsely populated area of southwest Virginia local time on June 4. The aircraft took off from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tenn., and was bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York. The FAA and NTSB will investigate. The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation and provide all further updates."
Later, it was confirmed that F-16s were scrambled to respond to a Cessna aircraft entering DC airspace unexpectedly. It is not clear if the aircraft entered the space intentionally or due to a medical emergency.
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