in southern virginia. i am jon scott and this is the box report. let s get right to lucas tomlinson at the white house with the latest. prince jon, we are learning that took off from elizabethan tennessee that north tennessee not far from the border of rigid and affluent all the way as far northeast as long island before mysteriously turned around coming back and crossing over restricted airspace above the nation s capitol for crash landing i to have our drive from here. for the d.c. national guard were scrambled. there clear to respond supersonic over mach 17061 miles per hour which caused a large sonic boom and rattled windows all the way from outside the nation s capitol pass annapolis to the eastern shore of maryland in response. right now virginia state police are trying to access that wreckage and figure out are there any survivors on board? and just what caused this business to go down. jon: a very strange situation have they located the crash site? have you been able
and just what caused this business to go down. jon: a very strange situation have they located the crash site? have you been able to determine that yet question request virginia state helicopters flying over the crash site. we re not sure the cross seismic axis on the ground. we are the large sonic boom took place 3:00 p.m. local here in washington had many residents throughout this area wondering just what is going on for the fact the fighter jets order to perceive supersonic to this mysterious aircraft shows you the urgency the u.s. military was bringing to the situation. fortunately here in the nation s capitol is a sunday afternoon and capitol hill, the u.s. capitol the pentagon not staff as you d expect during the week when you have millions of people here in the nation s capitol. jon: thanks very much lucas tomlinson at the white house we
it s physics audio and video evidence of the sonic boom that rattled not only that dog but probably millions of people in the washington d.c. area today. earlier this afternoon f-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an unidentified aircraft that it entered restricted airspace over the nation s capitol. those jets with supersonic causing a sonic boom and stop people from d.c., to sydney and maryland. we are now hearing the jets were racing to intercept the small aircraft now believed to be a cessna citation business jet that had strayed into the d.c. no-fly zone without authorization. ultimately went down the mountains of southern virginia. kyle bailey is a pilot aviation analyst former faa safety team
let the pilot doing any intervention effects they filed another flight plan much earlier in the day obviously that was supposed to have them taken off taking off about an hour ago and heading toward daytona beach for those of flight that is obscene not going to be made. kyle, stick with this if you would were going to check in once other senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on the phone in washington. this is like trying to piece together a mystery. we heard the sonic boom here in washington. but then we kind of got a sense there was more than just a sonic boom and they were doing exercises with the air national guard, the issue was a change of security posture at the u.s. capitol because they saw on their radar there is a plane that it pierced the air security bubble the no-fly zone around washington d.c. and to be clear here security officials of the capitol did not
what everyone heard the sonic boom is far from annapolis, maryland to manassas. a radius of 75 miles as little of the history here where there always so concerned about these planes that come near the capitol. the reason being is 911. took them a couple of years intelligence services to figure this out. they finally determine the plane that crashed in pennsylvania in 201,911 i was headed for the u.s. capitol. they take this very seriously. when incident last year where they d gotten the proper clearance the army s gold ignites a parachute outfit to drop into nationals park which was a few blocks from the u.s. capitol and deliver the game ball for the baseball game between the washington nationals in the arizona diamondbacks. somebody at the capitol is not where this was supposed to happen. they would all the way to code red in that incident. evacuate the capitol a lot i got