What caused the sonic boom near Washington D.C.
Military jets scrambled Sunday due to an unresponsive small plane over Washington D.C. that then crashed in Virginia
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Military jets scrambled Sunday due to an unresponsive small plane over Washington D.C. that then crashed in Virginia
An unresponsive airplane flying over Washington, D.C., on Sunday prompted military fighter jets to intercept the plane at hypersonic levels, causing a loud sonic boom heard around D.C. and Virginia, officials said. The plane later crashed in Virginia and no survivors were found.
A Cessna 180, an aviation plane, hit a maintenance bucket truck on an off-ramp at the Harrisburg West Interchange at exit 242 in Fairview Township.
The FAA is currently at the scene.
The camera view is lost briefly after the apparent collision but it comes back to show what the Air Force said was damage to the propeller from the strike.
One person was killed and two others were critically injured in Sunday afternoon's crash.
A regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara, authorities said.
The pilot and a passenger were both rescued about seven hours after the crash with "serious injuries," and Pepco said electricity was restored.
"We looked out and noticed the entire back half our house was gone," one resident said.
It happened in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County.
The plane crashed near the 1600 block of Keystone Avenue, around 1:45 p.m.
The family identified those on board of the small plane as Kristofer Noone and his father, John Noone.
Officials say the aircraft took off from a private residence near Union Road in Vineland, New Jersey.
Officials say the crash took place shortly after 5 p.m. at a home at 25 Meade road after the plane took off from the Wings Field Airport.
Officials say two men have been hurt in the crash of a single-engine plane that cleared some trees before going down into another grove along an East Texas highway.
Police are investigating after a plane crashes on Wednesday night in Burlington County.
Authorities have released the name of a crew member killed along with a colleague when the plane they were flying crashed this week at a small airport outside New York City.
Authorities are investigating after a small single engine plane made a hard landing in New Jersey.
Two people are dead after a small jet crashed near an airport in New Jersey on Monday.
Four people died and two were injured when a small plane carrying a family returning from a cheerleading competition crashed into two Southern California homes and sparked a major fire Monday, authorities said.
Two people were pulled from the water after their small plane crashed in Colorado.
An Australian pilot and four American tourists on a golfing vacation were killed when a light plane crashed in flames into a shopping mall on Tuesday shortly after takeoff in the Australian city of Melbourne, officials said.
A pilot is in stable condition Monday morning after a frightening plane crash in Bayonne, New Jersey over the weekend.
A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after a Russian military plane crashed Sunday with 92 on board.
NTSB investigators say a "leading edge cold front boundary" sent a plane crashing into the woods in South Jersey killing a man last month.
