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Federal investigators trudged through rugged terrain Monday in search of wreckage from a business jet to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain, killing four people.

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

A federal investigator says 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.

An NTSB investigator told reporters it will take investigators a while to reach the remote crash scene. They expect to be on the scene for at least three to four days.

Experts said publicly available flight data suggests the pilot had fallen unconscious and that the plane was flying on autopilot until it ran out of fuel.

The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, the fighter jet pilots reported, according to three US officials briefed on the matter.

Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia.

The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, the fighter jet pilots reported, according to three US officials briefed on the matter.

People in Washington, D.C., and Virginia were rattled Sunday by an explosive sound later confirmed to be a sonic boom caused by jets flying overhead.

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