F-16s Scrambled to Chase Small Plane over Washington
The U.S. Air Force scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of an unresponsive Cessna aircraft that flew over Washington, DC before crashing into the mountains of Virginia.
Virginia state police said on Sunday that no survivors were found at the crash site.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday morning and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport, New York. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over Long Island and flew a straight path down over the U.S. capital before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m.
The Cessna was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne, Florida, according to the flight-tracking website Flight Aware.
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