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.
at last check, they ve tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they ve been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday s scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration and will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon in a matter of years. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. i don t think kristin has us. can you hear us? reporter: hey, guys, i m having a hard time with my earpiece so i can t quite hear what you said. let me bring you up to speed from the kenned
take the take the tail. i ll take the cockpit. they were gonna have a suicide mission and crashed themselves into the flight that eventually crashed in virginia. so hats off to the to the military. they protect our skies. any sense, john from you as a pilot of you know, why wouldn t if the plane the citation and it s not just a small private jet. it s a pretty hefty medium sized private jet. why wouldn t potentially the pilot land sooner if he came into any trouble if he is incapacitated ? what would explain the u turn? that s it s a mystery to me. i can t explain any of it. to me. this is almost as mysterious there. here s the flight path of that aircraft. um and you can see it took off . the lowest portion of the blue line is blunt, ville, tennessee. that s where the plane took off. it flew up toward, um, new york s long island. and then it made that
as it results to anti-ballistic missiles, anti-cruise missiles, and we have given these to allies before, it s not new. we have given them to israel in the past, to saudi in the past, so there is a history of arming our friends and allies with defensive capabilities when there is a threat to themselves or u.s. troop presence in the region. this is a defensive capability, incredibly important. putin is in this for the long haul, even if it s years, john. he s in it for the long haul and will continue to terrorize and target civilians and target critical infrastructure until he finally gets what he wants. john: a couple more issues quickly, we talk to you a lot about china, australia back in october arrested an american pilot named daniel duggan, alleged he helped chinese pilot
here. could the plane run out of fuel? we re not totally sure, we re only two hours into this. could the pilot land successfully? also unsure. we re not sure if this person is a pilot or trained. we do think or at least i think that this person at least has some good familiarity with flying if they were able if they were not a pilot, able to start this airplane and take off. they would have had to have had at least some aviation knowledge. still unclear if this person is a trained pilot although we do know he was an airport employee. so the tsa and local authorities are all monitoring this. do we know what the plan is, protocol, i guess, to intercept this plane if they had to at some point? reporter: really there is no protocol. we know from the horizon air incident back in seattle several years ago, when an airport employee essentially broke into