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
ultimately then went down in the mountains of virginia near stanton as chad pergram was telling us. do you have any ideas what happened here? what s jon, this is interesting. i would say it s safe to say we know a lot less would be guessing about a lot of this. i ve thrown through d.c. several times and helicopters rules were different we were lower altitude flying from checkpoint to checkpoint. even that you got to be externally careful. with a cessna citation that comply so high typically their flight instruments. their dead with the person on the other end of the radio tells you to work follow an established flight plan that is extremely accurate and fairly normal, frankly. for what it did to reverse course to completely change its direction flight towards d.c. was very unusual. that is what because the response. for a plane that could fly
was it out of fuel? perhaps was the pilot somehow incapacitated? perhaps. the fact that they are not able to locate the crash site tells me you know that they have not been able to thus far at least tells me that it probably was out of fuel because if you ve got fuel on board in any kind of a crash like that, that fuel is going to explode and set off a significant fire or at least a smoke plume. the authorities last we heard had not been able to locate the crash site in a in a fairly wooded area there in tennessee, or i m sorry in virginia near stanton, virginia. so that tells me that it probably was out of fuel. but again, we don t know we re getting some information now. john from norad, confirming that the f sixteens did not. take down that plane, so it sounds as if it did run out of fuel. let s just back up for a second, if you can, because, remember the pain stewart crashed and this has happened occasionally. these private jets depressurized the run out