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
instrument flight plan. it is illegal to be in the clouds and you can t cross the island of manhattan without checking in with laguardia to r tower. there are certain they will give you permission on occasion, if traffic permits. generally they send you over central park. so, this video that we see is certainly illegal behavior on the part of either another helicopter pilot most likely this is the helicopter that was involved in the crash. we do know this. it was owned by a company, real estate holding firm that has offices on park avenue, and it is based the helicopter is based in lyndon, new jersey, near newark. unclear what the route of flight was. was this pilot incapacitated? did he have a problem with the controls of the craft? was this something was there some other mental aspect to this, that made him distracted? unclear. peter gold i spoke with the mayor of new york city the last
to kill her, only killed himself. it happens from time to time that people will take whatever tool they have available and try and resolve some kind of a grudge they have, and that appears to be what happened here. but this guy chose to use his airplane to do it. megyn: jon, i heard there would be i heard you report earlier but to get the viewers up to speed, there would be no fight plan filed, there would be no way for federal officials to track it. right. i can just about guarantee thaw this pilot, if he was instrument-certified, and you have to be instrument-certified to file an instrument flight plan, if you re a vfr pilot, which is what which means you are able you re allowed, you re listened to fly on clear days, in good weather, a vfr pilot wouldn t necessarily have to file a flight plan. it s one of the things that pilots enjoy about aviation in this country, there s a lot of freedom, you can just jump in your plane, announce yourself and take off.