America: Private plane crashed, flying from restricted airspace Washington DC. international news in hindi

Washington. US F-16 fighter jets on Sunday afternoon chased a private plane flying over Washington DC from one of the country’s highly restricted airspaces that crashed in Virginia.

Police later said rescuers arrived at the plane crash site in a rural area of ​​the Shenandoah Valley and found no survivors on board. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna Citation plane took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed to MacArthur Airport on Long Island.

The plane inexplicably started flying towards Washington DC and then crashed in a mountainous area near Montebello, Virginia at around 3:30 pm. It is not yet clear why the plane took off for Washington DC and how it came to be. Crashed. Significantly, Washington DC is one of the highly restricted airspace in the country.

A US official said on condition of anonymity that the military plane followed the small plane that was not responding to radio transmissions and later crashed. The plane that crashed is registered in the name of Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, Florida.

Company owner John Rumpel told The New York Times that his daughter, two-year-old granddaughter, her babysitter and the pilot were on board. They were returning to their home in East Hampton on Long Island. A White House official said President Joe Biden had been informed about the plane crash.

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