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.
we have it up on the screen right now, starting in blountville, virginia, i mean, tennessee, and then going up northeast around new york and then back down straight across the middle of washington, d.c. what do you make of that? you know what? when i first heard this, pretty much the payne stewart plane crash that happened years ago where they had a pressurization problem with the aircraft came into mind, so if the pilot is incapacitated and loses oxygen, they could either one or both pilots completely out cold in the cockpit of the airplane, and the plane basically would be like a ghost plane until it ran out of fuel, but it s just very very strange, this u-turn, it is really unexplainable. typically when if there s a loss of pressurization or the pilots become unconscious the airplane usually flies in pretty much a straight line. you normally donn see the u-turn. even up at a high altitude such as 30,000 feet, typically the
was it out of fuel? perhaps was the pilot somehow incapacitated? perhaps. the fact that they are not able to locate the crash site tells me you know that they have not been able to thus far at least tells me that it probably was out of fuel because if you ve got fuel on board in any kind of a crash like that, that fuel is going to explode and set off a significant fire or at least a smoke plume. the authorities last we heard had not been able to locate the crash site in a in a fairly wooded area there in tennessee, or i m sorry in virginia near stanton, virginia. so that tells me that it probably was out of fuel. but again, we don t know we re getting some information now. john from norad, confirming that the f sixteens did not. take down that plane, so it sounds as if it did run out of fuel. let s just back up for a second, if you can, because, remember the pain stewart crashed and this has happened occasionally. these private jets depressurized the run out