is something they did. last year. it was around may or june of last year, where there was a plane that flew over washington, dc, and there was a miscommunication it was, you know, an event for the washington nationals baseball team at the ballpark there, and they actually evacuated the capitol. they went to read because there was a miscommunication at this point was supposed to be there that close to the united states capitol but again anytime they have any aircraft that pierces that security perimeter around washington d. c. they re going to take notice here in washington and they re going to do you know, take those measures to protect the capital protect the white house, etcetera, and that s exactly what they did briefly here and then i was told after the they cleared the capital. said there wasn t a problem here. that s when people heard the sonic boom. and so that s what lucas was was talking about here. scrambling the jets from joint base andrews just outside washington, d c to pr
unaware or they mess up their navigation and they wind up flying into this thing, and that s why they ll either launch a helicopter or a fast jet like an f 16 or f 15, depending on who s standing that duty and what units are assigned that responsibility to actually go up and look at these intruders, and then they have various procedures to force them out of the area. they landed a local airport they re met. by officials, and that s probably depending on what happened. you could lose your license. lot of different things happened from that point on captain dash. if you could stand by for me, i ve got to take a quick break. but eric and i will have much more on this breaking news story for you coming up after this. brief break.
. in this case. it seems like it. it s a blunder on the part of the pilot. but you did tell his chad that the virginia state police there s searching starts in virginia for that plane down plain and you mentioned how mountainous mountainous the train is. so it makes me think that if there is someone on board who has survived this crash, they may not even be able to get any sort of cell coverage out there to make a phone call. calls you get down in that part of virginia and i ve been down in there are a number of times. in fact, i have a good friend from stanton, who works here in washington, dc news to work on capitol hill and i just know how mountainous and world that area is. in fact, if you if you went back and watched the tv show the waltons that if that was set in that part of virginia bolton s mountain, it s very mountainous there and you re not going to have great cell coverage. the fog can roll in very quickly, and this is where the virginia state police are saying that they ca
here in washington, d c. a lot of tourists and things like that the congress was not in session or anything like that. we just got through with the debt ceiling. it s a different matter when we were all capital last week with the negotiations for the debt ceiling, but this sonic boom shortly after capital security officials reverted to the green posture with the air con is when they heard the sonic boom. and in just the past few minutes here , we ve gotten a statement from the virginia state police. that they are searching for a plane near stanton, virginia. now, if you look at this on the map, you might think it s pronounced haunted because it s s t a u n t o n its way up in the mountains in virginia, about an hour or so west of charlottesville but is pronounced stanton and the virginia state police say the following 3 50 pm the virginia state police were notified of a possible aircraft crashed in the stanton blue ridge parkway region. search efforts are still underway by state and lo
forest in virginia. i m also hearing from a source familiar with this investigation that four people were on board this airplane. pilot unresponsive. the plane overshot its initial destination in new york by 315 miles. you can see the track there on flight tracking site flight aware. the flight took off from tennessee and went northeast bound over northern virginia, delaware, southern new jersey and then turned inbound for long island there. then proceeded to fly southwest bound and through the layer and layer of restricted air space around washington, d.c. it s known as the flight restricted down and the special flight rules area. that apparently is what triggered this intercept. to me right now, i can tell you as a pilot and a flight instructor, it sounds like the payne stewart incident back in the 90s when the pro golfer was