A sonic boom that echoed over Washington on Sunday (June 4) was caused by two fighter jets scrambling to intercept an unresponsive aircraft that later crashed in rural Virginia.
Residents of the city and its suburbs reported hearing the thundering noise, which rattled windows and shook walls for miles and caused social media to light up with people asking what had happened.
President Joe Biden, who was at the White House and also played golf Sunday, was briefed on the incident, an official told journalists without specifying whether any emergency precautions were implemented due to the incident. The civilian plane had taken off from Elizabethton, Tennessee and was bound for Long Island, New York, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The unresponsive aircraft crashed somewhere near Montebello, Virginia, some 274km southwest of the nation's capital at around 3.30am Singapore time the FAA said.
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