Washington. US fighter jet chases followed a mysterious plane flying in the Washington area of America on Sunday. On which the mysterious plane became uncontrolled while running and crashed in the US state of Virginia. All four people aboard the aircraft were killed. This has been confirmed by the officials. According to local police, no one on board was alive when rescuers arrived at the crash site in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley.
According to officials, a sonic boom was heard in the US capital Washington DC when fighter jets were chasing a small plane. However, this plane later crashed in Virginia.
Officials said that the Federal Aviation Administration calls for fighter jets when any aircraft is flying in an unsafe manner.
The continental US North American Aerospace Defense Command region said fighter jets tried to contact the pilot of the mysterious aircraft, but there was no response from him. On receiving no response from the pilot of the civilian aircraft, the fighter jet followed him.
Fighter jets were flying at supersonic speed, due to which people heard the sonic boom.
Officials say that the fighter jet also used flares to attract the attention of the pilot of the aircraft.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement that the F-16 was authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, causing a sonic boom heard in parts of Washington, Virginia and Maryland.
According to the Virginia State Police, officers were notified of a possible accident just before 4 p.m. Rescue workers reached the crash site on foot after about four hours. Everyone aboard the plane died. No one survived.
The mysterious aircraft being chased was named a Cessna 560. Which crashed near the George Washington National Forest in Virginia. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday to MacArthur Airport on Long Island. Inexplicably, the plane circled over Long Island, New York, and crashed into a mountainous area near Montebello, Virginia, at approximately 3:30 p.m.
The crashed aircraft was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida. John Rumpel, who runs the company, told the New York Times that his daughter, her two-year-old granddaughter, her grandmother and the pilot were on board. He said he was returning to his home in East Hampton on Long Island after visiting his home in North Carolina.
President Joe Biden was playing golf at Joint Base Andrews when the fighter jet took off. US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident had no impact on the president’s activities.
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