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
earth l is that so many people in the washington metropolitan region for this sonic boom and again i was told that people as far away as annapolis, maryland, which is on the chesapeake bay to manassas, virginia, which is getting out to the extreme western edge of the d. c. suburbs that s about 75, miles as the crow flies between there, and people heard this. in fact, my you know my wife s friend had heard something and asked if we had heard something. i actually didn t hear it at the time. um we have heard sonic booms here in washington d. c when they do have various exercises or something of that nature, but that s what what? what rattled everybody initially. and what had happened from reporting standpoint is i just started calling around to see if there was an explosion somewhere. and of course, i always start checking people with the capital first, and at first, everything said no. we don t know anything. and then we found out that they had had this change in security posture at the
what everyone heard the sonic boom is far from annapolis, maryland to manassas. a radius of 75 miles as little of the history here where there always so concerned about these planes that come near the capitol. the reason being is 911. took them a couple of years intelligence services to figure this out. they finally determine the plane that crashed in pennsylvania in 201,911 i was headed for the u.s. capitol. they take this very seriously. when incident last year where they d gotten the proper clearance the army s gold ignites a parachute outfit to drop into nationals park which was a few blocks from the u.s. capitol and deliver the game ball for the baseball game between the washington nationals in the arizona diamondbacks. somebody at the capitol is not where this was supposed to happen. they would all the way to code red in that incident. evacuate the capitol a lot i got
you have, you know, assessment flying and not responding to radio calls. it s always a warning sign to the fda and also norad and we re awaiting a statement from norad. we were told they re putting that together right now until we learn more, but we just know that alert fighters were scrambled from andrews air force base to intercept this unknown aircraft was assessed and not responding to radio calls and has reportedly crashed outside the d. c area. certainly hopeful to get more information on what caused that crash. it was shot down or if it the pilot was incapacitated. sadly thank you, lucas, uh, for the report, and have you stand by right there? yeah eric, meanwhile, chief congressional correspondent chat program is joining us on the phone. first of all, chad. did you hear the sonic boom and also are you hearing from any of your sources with reaction? i did not hear the boom but a friend of ours did people all over the washington metropolitan region , then all the way from annapoli