lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.
you know, your your movements are sort of controlled by, um, the flight plan that you filed ahead of time. and if you deviate from that instrument flight plan, you re going to be in serious trouble. now this aircraft i m just guessing did not have um, the special flight plan that it needed to have filed in order to cross over the airspace around our nation s capital, and that s why they scramble those 16 reported on those f sixteens at andrews air for at and er joint base, sanders and they are basically what they call hot ready. they re they re plugged in. so to speak. uh the engines warmed up there ready to take off at any moment. 11 is the story of the heroism of their national guard, one of the male pilot two planes took off when they had the report of the flight that crashed in pennsylvania and in radio contact, the pilot told the female pilot who was flying you