![]() Air Traffic Control audio from the half-hour before the crash captured voices that identify themselves as military pilots trying to communicate with the pilot, according to recordings on. National Guard intercepted the plane at about 3:20 p.m. Audio appears to capture military pilots trying to contact planeĪs the plane flew near Washington, six jets from three locations were launched, and F-16 fighters from the D.C. It remained at 34,000 feet until it began to descend less than 10 minutes before the crash at 3:23 p.m.įlight tracking sites showed the jet underwent a rapid, spiraling descent, dropping at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing into the remote wilderness near the George Washington National Forest. The plane climbed to 34,000 feet and flew over the Long Island airport at 2:33 p.m., according to the NTSB. Air Traffic Control lost communication with the plane during its ascent and last attempted communication about 15 minutes after takeoff when the plane was at 31,000 feet. The plane took off from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee at 1:13 p.m., bound for the Long Island MacArthur Airport, the NTSB said in a statement. ![]() Gerhardt said the plane is not required to have a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder, but the plane may have had other equipment investigators can gather data from "that's, of course, not quite as good as a black box, but it can still be helpful for the investigation." Air Traffic Control lost contact with the plane during ascent Gerhardt said Monday that after investigators examine the “highly fragmented” wreckage at the site, it will be moved, possibly by helicopter, to Delaware for further inspection as officials try to uncover what caused the crash. officials briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the fighter jet pilots reported seeing the Cessna pilot slumped over. The plane flew into restricted airspace over the nation's capitol Sunday, prompting the military to scramble F-16 fighter jets at supersonic speed to intercept it. Federal investigators had to hike for several hours to reach the site near rural Montebello, Virginia, about 60 miles southwest of Charlottesville, and they expect to remain there for three to four days, according to the NTSB. ![]() The location of the crash makes the already challenging task of understanding what caused the Cessna 560 Citation V to veer hundreds of miles off course after making a U-Turn over Long Island in New York even more difficult, NTSB investigator Adam Gerhardt said Monday. WASHINGTON – Investigators planned to recover wreckage Tuesday from the "highly inaccessible and very remote" site in a Virginia mountain where a small private plane crashed, killing the four people on board, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. ![]()
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