‘My Family Is Gone’: No Survivors Aboard Plane That Triggered Supersonic F-16 Response

‘My Family Is Gone’: No Survivors Aboard Plane That Triggered Supersonic F-16 Response
Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Va., on June 4, 2023. Randall K. Wolf via AP
Melanie Sun
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Search and rescue crews in a rural area of Virginia have found no survivors in the wreckage of the small aircraft that went silent, triggering a national security response after wandering into Washington, D.C.’s restricted airspace on June 4.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled F-16 fighter jets in an attempt to reach its pilot when authorities saw the plane flying erratically and without authorization at around 3:20 p.m. local time.

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