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Emma Bowman

Military F-16s intercepted a business jet, shocking D.C. residents with a sonic boom

A 2005 Cessna Citation Bravo is pictured parked at the airport in Santa Fe, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)

Military fighter jets intercepted an unresponsive plane that flew over Washington, D.C., before the plane crashed in mountainous southwest Virginia on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The supersonic speeds of the responding fighter jets produced a loud boom heard over the nation's capital region.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident. No survivors were found, according to a emailed statement from the Virginia State Police.

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