US authorities have scrambled fighter jets to pursue a light aircraft that violated airspace in the Washington, D.C. area, US officials said on June 4.
The fighters were trying to catch up with the Cessna Citation, which can carry seven to 12 passengers, officials said.
As Reuters reports with reference to the US Federal Aviation Administration, the Cessna plane crashed into a mountainous area in southwestern Virginia around the time a sonic boom was heard in the capital.