Rumpel, a pilot, said he hoped his family didn’t suffer and suggested the plane could have lost pressurization. She responded that "my family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter."
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Watch Video: Update on Virginia plane crash: 'No survivors' in rough terrainĬondolences were posted on Barbara Rumpel's Facebook page. Officials in Bowie, Maryland, and the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management in Maryland said the sound was from an aircraft that had flown out of Joint Base Andrews. F-16 fighter jets were “authorized to travel at supersonic speeds," the agency said. The intercept caused the sonic boom heard across the Washington region about 3:10 p.m., according to NORAD. Graphics: Cessna's flight, sonic boom of pursing F-16 jets Sonic boom startles region The pilot never responded to attempts to establish communication, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said. National Guard intercepted the Cessna 560 Citation V at about 3:20 p.m. Six jets from three locations were launched, and F-16 fighters from the D.C. Capitol Complex was "briefly placed on an elevated alert until the airplane left the area," police said. Capitol Police officials said they were monitoring the unresponsive pilot along with federal partners as the plane flew nearby on Sunday afternoon. The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the investigation into the crash, the statement said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement the plane crashed into a forest near rural Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m. It was not certain why the plane veered off course, but loss of cabin pressure − which could render the pilot and passengers unconscious − was a possibility, said the plane's owner, who told news outlets his daughter and 2-year-old granddaughter were aboard.
officials briefed on the matter who were not authorized to discuss details of the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.įederal investigators had to hike for several hours to the site of the wreck because of the mountainous terrain, as they tried to unravel the mystery of the Cessna that made a U-turn over Long Island and flew hundreds of miles off its flight path, prompting F-16 fighter jets to scramble at supersonic speed to intercept it.Ī sonic boom from the pursuing jets startled residents across Washington and parts of Maryland and Virginia as the warplanes shadowed the unresponsive plane, firing off flares in an unsuccessful effort to gain the pilot's attention. The pilots' reports were revealed Monday by three U.S. Watch Video: Fighter jets create sonic boom reacting to unresponsive planeįighter jet pilots who attempted to intercept a small private plane flying Sunday in restricted airspace over Washington reported seeing its pilot slumped over and unresponsive, providing a major clue about what might have led to the crash into a Virginia mountain that killed the four people aboard.
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