by oceangate expeditions. that vessel starting its voyage down to the titanic sunday morning. officials say an hour and 45 minutes into the dive, the ship lost contact with the sub and alerted the coast guard. oceangate says a crew of 5 has enough oxygen to survive for 96 hours. there could have been an accident, it could have become tangled in the wreckage of titanic. it could indeed have had a catastrophic failure. the answer is we don t know just yet. we are taking scans of the wreck. reporter: since 2021 oceangate expeditions has offered tourists paying roughly $250,000 a chance to travel with scientists studying the doomed ocean liner 2 miles down at the bottom of the ocean. that tour aboard a submersible called titan, the only one in the world able to carry five people to titanic depths. target. one two degrees. an epic voyage to the world s most famous shipwreck. this is a rare opportunity to explore titanic as an actual member of the expedition crew. reporter: the s
operator is a company, the titanic seenin operator is a company, the titanic seen in cgi recreation sank back in 1912, more than 1500 lives were lost. small submersibles you can pay tens of thousands of pounds to visit the wreckage site. our correspondence gave the latest details. details are sketchy but what we have been told by the boston coastguard is that an operation is under way to find a submersible used to view the wreck of the titanic. many people will know of course the titanic sank in 1912, about 400 miles off the coast of new finland newfoundland with many souls lost. occasionally subs are taken to view the wreckage but it is very far deep under the ocean but we know at the moment a search is under way,
unexpected 180 heading south toward washington and crashed. four people were on board. no survivors have been found. fighter jets from d.c., the national guard there were scrambled to intercept the plane traveling at supersonic seems which caused the supersonic boom which startled this dog in virginia. joining us now is nbc aviation correspondent tom costello. good morning. what do officials think happened here? let me give you a quick update here. that is that the site, the wreckage site is five miles into very dense, thick forest in southern virginia in middle virginia, i should say, west of charlottesville and as you probably saw from the pictures, there are no survivors. this started midday on sunday, jose, when a plane, a jet, a private jet, was going to
what caused the sonic boom that rattled residents across two states and the nation s capital. the grand jury investigating the trump classified documents case is starting today. new video this morning as a chinese warship comes close to a u.s. destroyer in the taiwan strait over the weekend. the new warnings from both sides. and back at home, it s a big week for the republican race for the white house with at least three new candidates expected to make announcements. we begin this hour with federal investigators now on the site of a small plane crash, a private plane crash, that went off course and flew near the nation s capital on sunday. the plane took off from tennessee heading to long island, new york, but did an
watch this. officials say they tried to make contact but the pilot was unresponsive. the fighter jet pilots apparently set off flares trying to get the pilot s attention but it didn t work and the plane crashed. we take you to brian todd. you have new details about what first responders encountered, what the scene was like when they first got there. what can you tell us? reporter: right, as we speak, ntsb investigators are deep into these mountains sifting through wreckage site right now. to get there, you can see what they had to get there. you can see the cut in the mountains. the deep valleys, the steep terrain, the steep mountains. this is what they had to go through last night, the first