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Remains of the plane have yet to be found. government agents have been on high alert since the incident. go to fox news correspondent jennifer griffin. what should we know? >> jennifer: it was dramatic afternoon, the president was golfing at andrews air force base when two f-16s took off because there was a cessna citation flying, seemed to be on auto pilot, heading toward the capitol. the f-16 pilots caught up with the recession and the pilot was unresponsive. they fired flares and the plane went down in the mountains of southern virginia. two other planes near atlantic city were scrambled. t...

Gulf legend payne stewart was on board a plane with five other people and that plane suffered a sudden air pressure, cabin depressurization. there was no probable -- no air pressure inside that cabin. as a result, everybody on board was incapacitated, including the crew. the plane flew and flew and flew and finally ran out of gas, similar to this plane and crashed in south dakota. so now they have to rye to pick together the pieces to see if they can determine if that was truly what happened or if there was some sort of a medical emergency. chris, all indications are at this hour that that pil...

Air traffic control, from these fighter jets, from atlantic city and joint base andrews, but then other civilian planes that were trying to get in touch with this plane over the radio, trying to raise it on the emergency frequency and try to talk them down. you can see the path. from elizabethton, tennessee. then the flight explicably turned. it never made any sort of descent. it was at 34,000 feet the entire time as it went over maryland, delaware and south jersey. it turned back toward essentially the original destination. that may be a coincidence here. we're not totally sure to command a d...

Auto pilot of the airplane is on, so whether it was on, and it was somehow disengaged or malfunctioned, and the plane swung a u-turn, it is just very hard to know at this point. >> arthel: and you said that this particular type of plane could be flown by a single pilot or could have had a co pilot, but at some point, they are in communication with air traffic control, so they would know how many on board and there would have been a manifest; right? >> exactly. they would have been on a flight plan up at altitude, so the controllers would know exactly where they are. it is not like it was 20 ye...