US F-16 fighter jets caused a sonic boom across the Washington, DC, region Sunday as they scrambled to reach an unresponsive aircraft that ultimately crashed in Virginia, officials said.

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia

The fighter jets caused a sonic boom over the US capital that sent some residents into a brief panic

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. -- A small plane flying to Long Island crashed in the mountains of Virginia on Sunday. It happened around 3 p.m. in the southwestern part of the state. The Cessna plane took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, heading for MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma.

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

US fighter jets scrambled in response to an aircraft that ultimately crashed in southwest Virginia, according to a US official. The military aircraft caused a sonic boom heard across the Washington, DC,

A fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that could be heard and felt across the D.C. area. WASHINGTON — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia,