Category: sonic boom

Sonic Boom in Greater DC Was F-16s Responding to Unresponsive Pilot

Authorities have confirmed that an explosive sonic boom heard by residents in the wider D.C. area were Defense-authorized supersonic flights responding to an erratic small plane flying through the capital’s restricted airspace. Federal officials have since said that a small plane that crashed into a mountainside in the George Washington National Forest, southwestern Virginia, was…


Sonic Boom Heard Across East England as RAF Jet Scrambled

A Royal Air Force jet was scrambled to intercept an aircraft that wasn’t responding to traffic control on Tuesday, breaking the sound barrier and shocking people across the East of England with a sonic boom. According to the RAF, the Typhoon jet established communications on reaching the civilian aircraft and escorted it to a nearby…