Fighter jets intercept private plane in restricted air space over DC

Sonic booms were heard across the Washington, D.C., region after two fighter jets intercepted a private Cessna that approached restricted airspace over the capital before it ultimately crashed down in Virginia. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

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[stephenmwick]

So sad. I’m proud of how our military responded though. My heart goes out to those that died and their loved ones who remain.

[WingsOfADream]

"ran out of fuel"
classic 2 bullets to the back of the head suicide look ;3

[Nighttactical]

Protocol of intercepting that pilot should know: morning time: if you’re being intercepted to jets appear, if they need to follow, they were gonna go to the other side of your aircraft if they use a flares and then turn to side pass your nose of the aircraft that means where they’re going circling around the airport with their landing gear on that means they want you to land at the airport ( night time: things will be different now when they appeared on their lights there were gonna be some visual on the aircraft, but the most important is the land if they need you to land, they will put down their landing gear and shined their aircraft lights and then you should turn on your navigation light

[lrldn]

That dog was like, "I'm outta here."

[hansoll]

So they can scramble fighter jets for a business plane but not for 4 commercial planes on 9/11?

[Warhorse]

This had to be the most in-depth coverage of that incident, and I commend the anchors for the precise execution of the important facts.

[dave]

You can pick your friends and you can pick your jet, but you can't pick your friend's jet.

[frailgrande]

Imagine making a mistake and being intercepted by a F-16 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 scary!

[Cookie]

So these F-16s just chase down Cessnas all day

[reecom]

The private jet appears to have been flying on autopilot with the pilot having inputted the flight waypoints to his destination; that accounts for the slight dog-leg in the flight. He also appears to have programmed the Flight Management Computer (FMC) to turn toward his assumed landing runway to intercept the Instrument Landing System (ISL) heading to intercept the signal. That final heading to intercept the ILS signal to land on the runway heading was the last program in the FMC accounting for the straight line return heading.

[GeraldBoykin-dwxe]

HYPOXIA made the whole Lear Jet crew fall asleep!

[mr.pizzamarlon]

*How many times does the news need to keep reposting the same clone news per day?* There should be a news policy: whoever posts a story, keeps developing it and no other station can copy it to repost the same information. The news media just makes people want to regurgitate and vomit. 🤢

Must be nice working for a "news" station these [last days] because they literally do not need to do any work. *Just copy the identical news* posted by the other twelve news stations, add a new word and done. Oh, make sure that _thumbnail_ is at least a different angle so it gives the illusion one of our reporters *covered the story, * and we didn't just recycle data from the others.

[nedgivash]

"it apparently ran out of fuel and crashed", if you believe that then you also believe in the tooth fairy, santa claus...

[reecom]

A restrictive air space is cylinder column above the ground rising to a height level of 18, 000 feet; the private jet was flying at 34, 000 feet above the restrictive air space and wouldn’t have cause an immediate NORAD response. The time delay is reasonable for an assistance call from the FAA to NORAD to investigate.

[everythingvideos]

These pilots need to learn how to fly.

[charlespiper]

When the missile hit that private plane, it caused quite a noise

In Argentina, such an interception would have been impossible, thank you to the United States for selling us the F16s.

[Idontlikethisever]

Did they turned norad back on? What a joke

[RonnieSouthbuckle]

The girl in the :38 time stamp is beautiful

[SteveR-ymyc]

It didn't run out of fuel from Florida! Come on man! Pilot has to be awake to be escorted.They shot it down, which was the correct thing to do.