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. No survivors were found at the crash site.
The Cessna departed from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York,Flight trackers showed the plane departing heading north to Long Island from Tennessee before turning around and flying straight down to D.C. The trackers showed the plane descend rapidly before crashing, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute, The Associated Press reported.
The Cessna was intercepted by the fighter jets at approximately 3:20 p.m. ET. The pilot remained unresponsive throughout NORAD's attempts to establish contact, and the aircraft eventually crashed near the George Washington Forest in Virginia, the statement said. that the plane crashed into mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia. A U.S. official told CBS News that the Cessna was not shot down by the F-16s.
Virginia State Police were notified of the crash and immediately deployed to locate the wreckage, which they reached by foot shortly before 8 p.m., police said.It was not immediately clear how many people were aboard the plane. The NTSB said late Sunday that its personnel would arrive at the crash scene Monday morning. The agency said it expects to issue a preliminary report on the crash within three weeks.
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