WASHINGTON — (WASHINGTON) -- The chain of events set off by an unresponsive plane that eventually crashed Sunday in Virginia continues to raise questions about what happened on board and how the incident was handled.
Six fighter jets were scrambled on the afternoon of June 4 to try to intercept the private Cessna jet, originally on a flight from Tennessee to New York, as it encroached on restricted airspace around Washington D.C. The plane eventually went down in a mountainous area of Virginia, killing all four people on board.
"[Department of Defense] will take a look at the process," Kirby said. Kirby added the response was done in"textbook fashion" but DOD will determine if anything should have been done differently.Here's a timeline of the plane's path, and the military response that led to a sonic booms over the D.C. region and along the East Coast. All times are Eastern.At 1:13 p.m.
Air traffic controllers began warning pilots as early as 1:50 p.m. that an unresponsive plane was in the air.At approximately 2:30 p.m., the Cessna jet reached Long Island but did a 180-degree turn, changing its path to a southwestern trajectory as it flew over MacArthur Airport at a cruising altitude of 34,000 feet.Flight enters restricted airspace, fighter jets scramble
Door-camera footage from northern Virginia at 3:09 p.m. captured the noise of a sonic boom, which was later confirmed to be from the F-16’s that were authorized to travel at supersonic speeds to catch up to the unresponsive Cessna plane. A defense official said two F-16s that had taken off from Joint Base Andrews deployed flares and flew around the aircraft to try to capture the pilot's attention but received no response.
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