metro people in the dcr from annapolis, maryland all the way to manassas, virginia about a 7y heard the sonic boom because they had been given the authorization to go see what the deal was with the plane. we have had a number of these air incursions of the capitol part i should note they are fewer the further we get from 911. i have been on many occasions seemed like the first three or four years it was happening once or twice a year. i remember there was a plane they thought they had coming in they eventually escorted deviated from the flight path to land in leesburg virginia which is just outside of washington d.c. suburbs on the western s side. adventures of a fit ago probably the most famous example there is a plane prevent governor ernie fletcher of kentucky in washington d.c. for present reagan s funeral they were about to start the ceremony. he is going to light and the plane did not have a transponder. they got the jets up and evacuate the capitol i will
unpleasantly is it really is a start to investigate find him best as a craft there. there s a lot of fog there. the mountainous area. amounts deserves to be hard to find it s another mystery. we are tipped off this is not a sonic boom from a training exercise the security officials from the essex capitol itself saw this plane coming in, deviating, not communicating that have those episodes before and where they ve a plated airplane go off-line. when the most amazing stories are members president reagan was going in june of 2004 we were bringing in ernie fletcher with the time was the governor of kentucky former congressman the kentucky state police transponder was not working properly and they scrambled the jets. i m looking around the capitol
to took every 10 people here hear a loud boom this is why started to dial into this, this is ptsd in washington d.c. that people have in post 911 world. they are very concerned when they see exposure here aircraft because of what happened on 911. that is also why they have is very strict security measures when it comes to aircraft and everything else. and from the capitol perspective it appears everything again there is no threat to the capitol itself. they did change briefly the security posture from green to yellow and then back to green when they saw that this plaint was flying or radically created from the flight plan they could not communicate with the plane out of an abundance of caution they said hate let s change the security posture for the knock it up another notch or two we will. fortunately they did not for the capitol is safe from student do not know the rest of the history of this claim.
get back to us and you get more information, thanks lucas. caressing your congressional correspondent chatted program is joining us from phone from washington. first tipoff there was a problem is the cost of the security posture. four different green, yellow, blue, red red is without evacuate the capitol. as it capitol and the general secure airspace around washington d.c. they went from green to yellow out of an abundance of caution her until the plate never actually came close to the capitol itself. but we were to enhance foster for couple of moments but never perceive this as a threat to the capitol. planes are not allowed to fly inside of that bubble about washington d.c. since the post 911 world. i told them actually change the posture of the capitol that is
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?