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1:01Now PlayingWitness shares what he saw when the crash occurred, and Augusta County officials in Virginia provide an update on the scene.
RELATEDFighter jets create sonic boom reacting to unresponsive plane
Federal investigators on Monday hoped to begin unraveling the mystery of a private plane that made a U-turn over Long Island and flew hundreds of miles off its flight path Sunday, prompting F-16 fighter jets to scramble at supersonic speed to intercept the Cessna before it crashed in a Virginia forest, killing four people.
The plane's wayward travel included restricted airspace over the nation's capital. A sonic boom from one of the pursuing jets startled residents across Washington and parts of Maryland and Virginia as the fighters shadowed the unresponsive plane, firing off flares in an ill-fated effort to gain the pilot's attention.
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