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(WASHINGTON) — Federal officials have launched an investigation into how an unresponsive Cessna aircraft flew into restricted airspace in Washington, D.C., triggering the launch of fighter jets. A loud sonic boom could be heard throughout the D.C. region on Sunday as two F-16s launched from […]

Federal investigators say it will take days to gather highly fragmented debris from a small plane that flew over the nation’s capital and crashed in Virginia, killing four people

Attention on the crash and its cause was heightened by its unusual flight path over Washington and a sonic boom caused by military aircraft heard across D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia.

Washington:  US fighter aircraft set off a sonic boom that left residents of Washington DC rattled on Sunday as it chased an unresponsive Cessna jet that had flown over the region.

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia.

The Federal Aviation Administration said a pilot and three passengers were killed in the crash. The plane was destroyed.

A small plane that caused a stir when it flew over the nation's capitol and crashed in Virginia left behind ``highly fragmented'' wreckage in a mountainous area.

The pilot who runs the plane company said his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble fighter jets before the plane crashed in Virginia,

Idaho National Guard deployed 100 Airmen and 150 Soldiers to Europe Africa for training exercises and "strengthen military relations."