What was the big boom?

[Anonymous]

When do we think they lost pressure? Lost known communication with plane?

[Anonymous]

ELIAF what is a sonic boom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ELIAF what is a sonic boom?

When a plane goes faster than the speed of sound, there is a sonic boom. It’s the doppler effect; all the sound is essentially layered on top of each other and it’s loud AF.

- not a scientist

[Anonymous]

Very loud boom in my Fairfax neighborhood- made many of my neighbors and run outside to see what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many times are journalists going to call the owner of the plane? They called once and he said his daughter was dead and he needed to keep the lines clear because he was in contact with the FAA. Do they need to keep calling enough that they have now said no comment?

Yes, because it’s not the same person calling repeatedly. Were you born stupid or what?

[Anonymous]

Someone posted not to fly in a plane with only one pilot - well newsflash, if it’s depressurization of the cabin that got the pilot, it would have gotten a copilot, too. Presumably that is what happened, because otherwise had the daughter or nanny been conscious, one of them would have noticed they hadn’t landed and would have used the radio to contact ATC and possibly been guided into a successful landing of the aircraft.

There is some comfort in the assumption that all on board were unconscious and ignorant of the fiery end that awaited them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ELIAF what is a sonic boom?

https://wapo.st/3oG0BMS

Hear it here.

[Anonymous]

What time did y’all hear the boom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ELIAF what is a sonic boom?

When a plane goes faster than the speed of sound, there is a sonic boom. It’s the doppler effect; all the sound is essentially layered on top of each other and it’s loud AF.

- not a scientist

Also they are banned over the US. They've been banned since 1973 - too many lawsuits about noise and broken windows. This was a real emergency, not a drill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What time did y’all hear the boom?

Arlington around 3:10ish

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ELIAF what is a sonic boom?

When a plane goes faster than the speed of sound, there is a sonic boom. It’s the doppler effect; all the sound is essentially layered on top of each other and it’s loud AF.

- not a scientist

Also they are banned over the US. They've been banned since 1973 - too many lawsuits about noise and broken windows. This was a real emergency, not a drill.

Are all planes capable of creating sonic boom (even though yes, they are not allowed to)?

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Anonymous wrote:How did it go 300 miles in the wrong direction and THEN turn around?

I don't think it went three hundred miles in the wrong direction? Looks like it flew to its destination and then not only didn't land, it turned around. Very weird. I was reading some aviation nerd reddit posts and it sounds like that's a feature of autopilot?

Really?

From the sounds of it, yes, really.

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Anonymous wrote:How did it go 300 miles in the wrong direction and THEN turn around?

I don't think it went three hundred miles in the wrong direction? Looks like it flew to its destination and then not only didn't land, it turned around. Very weird. I was reading some aviation nerd reddit posts and it sounds like that's a feature of autopilot?

Really?

From the sounds of it, yes, really.

Where is this reddit thread (not showing up on reddit home page)

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n611vg#3093ec91

So the Cessna was just flying to Long Island, but not landing? Did someone forget their cellphone or something?

Dumb of them to fly right over DC.

It is assumed, the theory so far goes, that the pilots/passengers were unresponsive - it was supposed to land in Long Island, I think, according to the flight data. But it u-turned and did a very remarkable straight-line flight over DC ... by then, apparently, unresponsive. Don't know all the details, but the conjecture was this wasn't a choice.

I understand they were unresponsive as they apparently bee-lined over DC, but were they unresponsive beforehand? Approaching Long Island?

Presumably not? And they didn't violate DC airspace when traveling in that direction. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n611vg#3093ec91

A local (to DC) Fox affiliate correspondent seems to be picking up on and verifying what the amateurs and news hounds had begun to propagate. There's an apparent screen grab of an FAA statement floating around twitter with no direct links (having a friend who actually works at the FAA, I think it is easier for them to send out emails than get the website updated because... digital isn't a strong suit, so that jibes to me. But who knows). https://twitter.com/lucasfoxnews/status/1665461262489141250?s=61&t=PckSN3mS7uR02yTgDc2tCg

Yikes. I looked at the flight radar zoom in to see where it went. It was a couple of miles from our house, but we'd decided to take a walk in the park and it went right over where we'd parked our car at that time. It went right over Georgetown Hospital and Virginia Hospital center too.

[Anonymous]

The owner of the plane, whose daughter and granddaughter died the crash, lost another daughter in a scuba diving accident at age 19.

Victoria Landing gets its name from Victoria Rumpel. Victoria was John’s daughter who died tragically at the young age of nineteen in a scuba diving accident. John honors the memory of his daughter with the Victoria Landing name. With that honor comes the responsibility to make Victoria Landing the very best it can be…in commemoration of Victoria and in celebration of everything life can and should be. Life is simply too precious.



https://victorialanding.com/our-history/