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.
going on ever since 9 11 and various national guard units were brought in from all over the country to do their duty is sick, you know, psy click through operating out of andrews and other air force bases in the area, and they were put on very high alert. and for a while there they were actually flying. what s called combat air patrol. they were actually airborne in racetrack patterns just in case. case something where to happen. they went from that posture to an alert posture. where the jets are on the ground, but the cruiser briefed, ready to go and they stand to watch and then rotate through there. so once the call is given, then they re up and off the ground on a hot vector toward the perceived threat. now these two incidents that occurred the cessna 1 82. this is not that unusual that somebody blunders