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
the plane who had been flying pretty consistently around 3400f 28000 feet per minute. and hit the ground in virginia. they are looking for are looking perhaps at the crash site. now, let me ask about the phraseology from norad they said they attempted to establish contact with the pilot until the aircraft crashed. obviously they would have been on the radio to them. but as i recall the payne stewart case they were able to put those aircraft right next to the cockpit they could see the interior windows were frosted over. next yes we were obviously the first tactic is we try to reach them on radio comms. the frequencies air traffic controllers and guard frequency. successfully intercepted.
all right. well, the russians are not happy about this, this plane going down. it was one of their migs and it was shot down by the turks and the turks are saying well, it invaded our space. the russians are saying, no it was over syria, you had to right to do this. and now we have a bit of an international incident. the russians are indicating they ll skip out on a global forum that included the turks. jenner j jennifer griffin is trying to piece this together. it s a nightmare. absolutely, neil. u.s. defense forces say that the radar tracks validate turkish claims that the se coy 24 crossed into the air space. the maps was leased. the u.s. pilots heard the multiple warnings issued by the turkish f-16 pilots to the russian pilots on the guard frequency. a mandatory radio frequency that s in all aircraft.
warning of serious consequences. calling the action quote, a stab in the back by turkey. martha: national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, do we know for sure the russian warplane violated the turkish air spies? reporter: radar validates turkish claims. u.s. pilots heard warnings issued by turkish f-16 pilots, on a guard frequency. u.s. aircraft hurt multiple warnings from the turks to the russian over the radio. turks say they issued 10 warnings in a matter of five minutes. military sources who i spoke to minutes after the plane went down, told me two turkish f-16s were involved. one fired, one aim-9 sidewinder. a heat-seeking missile a weapon normally fired at close range. what complicates the matters the plane wreckage is in syrian territory i m told.