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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said investigators plan to conclude its on-scene investigative work Wednesday from the southwest Virginia crash site of the light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington.

A new study will monitor the short- and long-term impacts of rocket launches on endangered wildlife near California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Senate Democrats may push for an airline "passengers' bill of rights" in the aviation reauthorization effort on the agenda this summer.

Investigators still don't know why a plane flew over restricted airspace in Washington DC before crashing into mountains in Virginia.

Air traffic controllers lost contact shortly after takeoff with the pilot of a light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington, authorities said on Monday.

No survivors found after Cessna Citation plane wrecked in Virginia mountains following unauthorised flight over Washington, with thunder clap heard as two F-16s went supersonic in race to intercept it. Joe Sommerlad writes

No survivors were found at the crash site

At supersonic speeds, F-16 jets chased down an unresponsive pilot who flew a civilian plane over the nation's capital and crashed in southwest Virginia. The FAA and NTSB are investigating.

The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said.