Earlier in the day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Sputnik after multiple media reports of loud explosion-like sounds in Washington that the Cessna Citation aircraft crashed in Virginia. The media reported that the aircraft was unresponsive, while the sonic boom was caused by a fighter jet.
"In coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, NORAD F-16 fighter aircraft responded to an unresponsive Cessna 560 Citation V aircraft over Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia on June 4, 2023. The NORAD aircraft were authorized to travel at supersonic speeds and a sonic boom may have been heard by residents of the region," NORAD said in a statement.
Cessna Citation was intercepted at about 19:20 GMT, the statement noted, adding that NORAD attempted to establish contact with the pilot until the aircraft crashed.
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Американские власти подтвердили, что поднимали в воздух истребитель для перехвата самолета в небе над Вашингтоном в округе Колумбия. Сообщаются детали: был задействован истребитель ВВС США F-16, над столицей перехватили бизнес-джет Cessna Citation V. Сообщение опубликовало Североамериканское командование ПВО (NORAD).
ReplyDelete«В координации с Федеральными управлением гражданской авиации 4 июня истребитель F-16 Североамериканского командования ПВО поднялся в воздух в ответ на не подававший сигналы самолет Cessna Citation V в небе над Вашингтоном и северной частью штата Вирджиния», - приводит информацию РИА Новости.
There is no evidence that the recent crash of a Cessna Citation business jet over Virginia was caused by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), as its representatives did not shoot the aircraft down, unnamed NORAD officials told The Washington Post on Monday.
ReplyDeleteOn Sunday, a Cessna Citation business jet crashed in Virginia after loud explosion-like sounds were heard in Washington DC and its surroundings. On Monday, NORAD said that the sonic boom was caused by a fighter jet raised in the air to intercept the plane, which was unresponsive.
NORAD tried to make contact with the pilot and attract their attention using flares, but without success, the department's officials told the newspaper, adding that a total of six military planes had been raised to intercept the aircraft, but only two of them had "inspected" the jet.
It is still unclear why the plane did not respond and why it crashed, the NORAD officials were cited as saying by the newspaper.
The crashed business jet is owned by Encore Motors of Melbourne, a company based in the US state of Florida. Relatives of the entity's chief, John Rumpel, were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident. They included his daughter, a two-year-old granddaughter, a babysitter and a pilot, Rumpel told The New York Times.