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
point i think it s more pilot incapacitation. again this is speculation such an early point i think the u-turn could very well be because the gps autopilot with the waypoints in there. in other words when the pilot was over or mists of the autopilot within revert to another fix that was preprogrammed in coordination with the gps. an action the plaintiff would have continued on autopilot toward that next fix. i think quite possibly this could be what we are seeing is the pilot or pilots being incapacitated and not correcting autopilot or inputting the proper procedure. in the airplane autopilot taking over. and then the airplane proceeding to the next waypoint or fix.
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
protect washington d.c., it s got to be a nervous time. i say judge yes thank you for having me on. certainly would be a nervous time but ultimately what takes over is retraining. the pilots for these planes and air force pilots in general are some there was highly trained people in the world. until this mission for them would have been considered although a little bit abnormal something they were more than ready to execute. even though they know what s on the other end if they are asked to engage that airplane it would not be easy. but they would do with the job require them. jon: we have the flight path of the aircraft on the street now. do not know if you ve been able to take a close look at it. but it took off from tennessee was supposed to land at the airport in the new york s long island and the middle of the island i should say. it overshot that. made a u-turn in the air and then flew straight over washington d.c. which is what caused this entire scramble and
the aircraft that lost pressurization wars somehow the pilot was completely incapacitated it seems like. early on it is hard to speculate what might have happened to the aircraft or to the pilot. come to this from a very unique perspective from f-16 pilot blanketed the defense sector in houston is the one we supported impulse entered we scramble against aircraft aren t doing what they are supposed to be doing. there are several tactics sonic boom can be scary but it s not as scary as an airplane that headed toward the white house work toward the capitol. we are cleared with no speed limits to intercept. that using flares very, we call they headed but we can lean into the aircraft to get it to do or move going back to his earlier