UPDATE: FAA confirms 4 dead after small plane bound for Long Island crashes in Virginia. TimMcNicholas has the latest.
has confirmed four people died after an unresponsive airplane flew over Washington D.C. and crashed in Virginia on Sunday.The FAA says the pilot and three passengers were killed and the plane was destroyed. Its path over D.C. prompted the military to scramble several fighter jets.Military jets scrambled due to unresponsive plane over Washington that then crashed in Virginia
Air traffic audio captured the moment the military scrambled fighter jets from multiple locations, including Atlantic City, to intercept the unresponsive flight after it flew through restricted airspace above our nation's capital.National Transportation Safety Board "That'll absolutely be a part of this investigation of looking at when the pilot became unresponsive, and why the airplane flew the flight track it did fly," NTSB investigator Adam Gerhardt said.John and Barbara Rumpel, heartbroken parents of Adina Azarian, who died in plane crash, speak out
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