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.
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
brought that plane down. we don t have a confirmed that it actually did crash. i ve been down to andrews air joint andrews base with those f sixteen s. i ve interviewed the pilots. they re on standby alert, basically what they call it, you know, hot, warm, hot, ready to take off. this is a stems from 9 11. the jets standing there ready to roll if there indeed, there is a threat to that capital white house triangle area, any other indication on the ground of any type of exercises or alert or anything at the white house that could have indicated there was a cause of concern there. which is not normally you hear a sonic boom, especially on a sunday afternoon in washington , eric and the right away knew that something was a little out of the ordinary and the fact that these f sixteens were launched. as you mentioned these are alert aircraft armed alert aircraft in the wake of 9 11. they ve been, you know, standing watch here at andrews ever since and the fact that
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
flight. this this happens occasionally with these small private jets. this is not confirmed, but the reports do say coming in that it could have been a citation. but the fact that the f sixteens did encounter and then start to escort of the plane away from washington, d. c. seems to indicate then it was not a terrorist type of threat. all right, and the fact that there was a flight path filed at probably rules out that the plane was stolen. we have seen that in the past, you know, somebody breaking into a plane . sometimes they re not even locked there on the ramp and taking off for a joyride or whatever the reason, but the fact that there was a flight pad flight plan from you know, east tennessee to i slip if you mentioned it also means that probably would have been a lot of fuel in that aircraft just starting the flight, so that s certainly a concern as well. when you talk about aircraft, and they re loaded with fuel, so then it s potentially very dangerous situation. yeah, the aircr