What was the big boom?

[Anonymous]

I assume sonic booms do not normally register as seismic activity? These jets must have been really low to escort a (depressiruzed unresponsive) Cessna through the no-fly zone at the Capitol and across the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The noise was a sonic boom when fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an unresponsive plane (Cessna) flying right over DC.

It appears the plane might have depressurized, and it ended up crashing when it ran out of fuel over southwest Virginia.

https://twitter.com/Killmoenetwork/status/1665443794014154753?s=20

plane flight history - https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N611VG/history/20230604/1700ZZ/0A9/KISP

Wow!

Nobody reliable has confirmed this. It can be hard to interpret flight data. But I’ll concede it looks weird.

[Anonymous]

I heard/felt it in NW DC. Scared me and the dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume sonic booms do not normally register as seismic activity? These jets must have been really low to escort a (depressiruzed unresponsive) Cessna through the no-fly zone at the Capitol and across the DMV.

Based on the flight data it was pretty high, like 30k feet.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I wonder... did/could people hear it from the air? Like if they were in an airplane nearby?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The noise was a sonic boom when fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an unresponsive plane (Cessna) flying right over DC.

It appears the plane might have depressurized, and it ended up crashing when it ran out of fuel over southwest Virginia.

https://twitter.com/Killmoenetwork/status/1665443794014154753?s=20

plane flight history - https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N611VG/history/20230604/1700ZZ/0A9/KISP

Wow!

Nobody reliable has confirmed this. It can be hard to interpret flight data. But I’ll concede it looks weird.

AFAIK Cessna's don't have pressurized cabins.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I live in Rockville and didn't hear anything. I see no one from Montgomery County is responding to this thread.

Did anyone in MoCo hear it? If not, why would that be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The noise was a sonic boom when fighter jets were scrambled to intercept an unresponsive plane (Cessna) flying right over DC.

It appears the plane might have depressurized, and it ended up crashing when it ran out of fuel over southwest Virginia.

https://twitter.com/Killmoenetwork/status/1665443794014154753?s=20

plane flight history - https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N611VG/history/20230604/1700ZZ/0A9/KISP

Wow!

Nobody reliable has confirmed this. It can be hard to interpret flight data. But I’ll concede it looks weird.

AFAIK Cessna's don't have pressurized cabins.

The Citation 560 is a business jet - think like a cheaper Gulfstream - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Citation_V - it has pressurized cabins. It flies at 30k feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Rockville and didn't hear anything. I see no one from Montgomery County is responding to this thread.

Did anyone in MoCo hear it? If not, why would that be?

because it was east of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

So presumably there is wreckage somewhere near Staunton?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

I heard it at 3:09, but from where I am it just sounded like a really loud plane. I guess we didn’t get the sonic boom part of it.