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The soldiers aboard the six F-16 who came on Sunday to intercept the plane that flew over Washington and that crashed on its outskirts they saw the pilot of that device collapse before his aircraft fell.
Sources familiar with the situation explained to The Washington Post that contact was lost with the plane, a private jet Cessna Citation going from Tennessee to Long Island, in NY15 minutes after takeoff as it passed over Virginia for the first time.
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The pilot of one of the F-16 of the Armed Forces that launched in search of the plane observed that the person who was piloting the Cessna collapsed to the right side, these sources indicated.
For his part, a high-ranking official told NBC News that the crashed plane took off from elizabethtonin Tennesseearound 1:13 p.m. local time (5:13 p.m. GMT) before air traffic controllers asked the pilot around 1:28 p.m. local time (5:28 p.m. GMT) to stop his climb at 33,000 feet (10,058.4 meters).
That source specified that the private jet headed north, toward long Islandbut that he turned around in New York City and was heading south when the F-16s came out in pursuit from the base of Andrewsin Marylandon the outskirts of the capital.
According to the official, the plane ran out of fuel at the height of montebello (Virginia), around 3:32 p.m. local time (7:32 p.m. GMT), without the pilot responding to any of the attempts to contact him.
The federal authorities began this Monday the investigation work to find out the cause of the crash of the plane.
researchers of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTBS, in English) moved to the accident area today to search for remains of the aircraft and clues that lead to the reason for its crash.
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The owner of the company that owned the aircraft, a man identified as john rumpleassured The Washington Post that the authorities have informed him that none of the four people who were on board the device have survived.
Rumple claimed the passengers on the jet were family members, including his daughter, grandson and a babysitter.
It is expected that the researchers NTBS deliver a preliminary report on the incident within three weeks.
Source: Elcomercio
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