Investigators are now piecing through the remains of a private aircraft that crashed on Sunday in Virginia. As the plane approached restricted Washington, D.C. airspace, six fighter jets were scrambled to intervene, but the pilot was slumped over and unresponsive. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.
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JABS!
This so sad 4 dead
Pane Stewart’s plane crash was shot down not crashed down
👀Secret War- https://youtube.com/shorts/qLWaPM9BdKE?feature=share
Fly commercial. Ban these private jets.
They won’t show the close up because 1 the inside window has a inch of frost on it.
Or 2 the only way they seen in it to put a bullet through the window which blows it out but then hecklers would say it was shot down.
But being trump’s behind this in so many ways 3 when you take the devil’s drink(you don’t complain)never never never say never again….🙉⚔️🏴☠️🧐
Same thing happened to the famous golfer Payne Stewart’s plane.
So basically you shot the plane down
The ole Safe & Effective strikes again!
You’re a bot
Surely someone on board realized something was wrong and tried to get on the radio? How could they not try if they see fighter jets out the window? This is terrifying and why I never fly in small planes and will never fly in a private jet without two pilots in the cockpit, ever!
They were all incapacitated, and therefore cannot respond. And this can happen on any aircraft, not just business jets.
Clearly shot down 100%
Clearly stupid, 100%.
Woman drivers, am I right?
Let’s get something straight, at no time did N611VG violate restricted air space over Washington DC. Restricted air space over DC goes from the ground to flight level 180 (18,000 feet). N611VG was at flight level 340 (34,000 feet) in class A air space well above the restricted area around Washington DC. Next time, please do your research and report factual information.
F the rich… boohoo…
Reminded of Helios flight 522.
Hmmmmmm I wonder what really happened
To your brain?
The irony is NORAD did not respond on 9/11.
Yes they did.
Or it’s a cover up because the victims know something
they shot it down according to people on the ground
Liar.
not anymore😁😁
This whole story is very fishy!!!! Why would you program a plane for a return flight. That means even if the Pilot was awake it would have still turned around on it’s own. I hate to say it but those booms were probably the plane being shot down for invading private airspace but after they found out there was a little child on board they are trying to cover it up!!!!
Where do all of the conspiracy theory nutjobs come from?
RIP to all in this tragedy.
Reminds me of that Helios flight
All the people saying rest in peace when in reality this snob women wont even spit on you if you were on fire.
good…🎉 🍻🍺🕺💃celebrate…
So tragic. Rest in heavenly peace
They weren’t required to have black boxes? Ever single plane should have one incase of a crash. Those are so important when it comes to investigating what went wrong
What if a robot did a drive the plane
i think all planes should have an ai to aid in these emergencies
RIP to the Jamaican Nanny on board. 🇯🇲
So the media is reporting “Private jet crash over Virginia following Sonic boom”. I find it suspicious that they mention the sonic boom in the heading and that they heard the sonic boom from F-16 fighters just as the private jet went down. Why was that so important to mention right away?
The plane was not responding and was headed toward Washington DC. On board we’re adults along with a 2 year old little girl. If they shot this plane down for security sake of our ancient president, that wouldn’t be too popular during the election.
It was reported that the pilot of one of the the F-16s saw the pilot slumped forward as they believed they lost cabin pressure and suffocated.
My problem with this is, at this altitude, if they did lose cabin pressure, even during this time of year, the windows of the plane would have iced over in minutes from the inside, and you wouldn’t be able to see in. I also don’t know if the harness would allow the pilot to slump forward.
But I do remember another plane that mysteriously crashed into the ground before reaching DC on 9/11, also after fighter jets were scrambled to intercept. Weird the way that happens. I don’t know if autopilot turned the plane or not, but the plane did make a sharp turn, not long before it was shot down. I’m not making any accusations, but I have serious concerns and tons of questions. I’d hate to think that we can’t shoot down a Chinese spy balloon that flies across the US and completes it mission, but we can shoot down planes with babies in them. Surely our government would never lie to us.
So sad.
Why did they send six fighters jet to the scene. Something seems suspicious!Also, why would it take up to two years to find a cause to what happened. Seems like a coverup. It’s also not the first time, there has been a coverup.
The family is a big part of the GOP. Make of that what you will
Two years is pretty average for an official accident report
So many pilots having ‘health incidents’, such as passing out, heart attacks, strokes, etc. A very healthy demographic before 2021. What changed all of a sudden? Experts are baffled.
Silence is golden to many.
Lol 😂 thanks I needed that this morning
Thank you for being the brave soul that has the guts to say something. Many of us know what is happening but are fearful of even bringing up the subject. Many are having a hard time understanding that we poisoned ourselves into madness. You are that small voice in the wind that many of us are staining to hear. Deep gratitude for you today. Smile knowing us others have found you.
Sounds like a vax injury that you are hearing all the time…OUTSIDE the lying media.
Exibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRC_GmzYs4
China is responsible for this. This is also happening in Philippines after Chinese balloon has been seen.
Another jabbed pilot ?
I’m never getting on a private plane without my own oxygen tank and altitude alarm.
Good luck with your eardrums
@C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)🔺 i also don’t believe personal oxygen tanks are allowed on planes
@braiden a Not on commercial planes.
@C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy)🔺 What’s your point? That it’s better to die after your ears pop than not die?
NBC, this has been reported on non partisan news outlets, so you can leave it to them. America prefers to hear news from legit news sources not a propaganda tool. Arent you affiliated with msnbc?
If the pilot lost consciousness because of medical distress and not hypoxia then the passengers died as a result of the crash. That would be awful.
Vaccinated pilot?
Wow, with all the technology available now days why are we still using Black Boxes? And some still use magnetic tape. Ridicules, live stream it or something. Google play store probably has an app to replace the boxes.
Biowapon recipient! Thats why rich people hire only unvax pilots 😢
Lol
There is an alarming # of covid vax injured pilots who can no longer fly – this reporter should do an update and let us know the vax status – it is tragic that all these lives were lost
Jesus Karen, would it be too much to open Google and factcheck stuff before it dribbles out of your mouth
braiden shows us just why sheep are great lab rats. enjoy your next 2 years caus it’s all you got left.
Prayers for peace over fhis family in Jesus name for their Loss. Philippians 4:6-7
Are all of you so brainwashed that you don’t recognize a
V@XXIDENT?! “Jabbed Pilot
Suffers Fatal Clot in Midair, All Souls Aboard Perish.”
WAKE UP.
So, cabin depressurization is caused by vaccines now?
Snap out of your ideological warfare, show some compassion.
no worries debor, these sheep will soon expire on their own full of experimental boosters
Suspicious
those *^emotionally* poor wealthy family members, such sad
USAF are really stupid. They dont care to their own people… The proof is out there 😂😂😂
Keep on killing each other my fellow Americans 😂😂😂
You are a fake American if you comment this nonsense.
The aircraft was built in 1990 and unless it was retrofitted (if even possible), it didn’t have Emergency Descent Mode (EDM) to auto-descend to a level where pilot(s) can recover consciousness, if a loss of cabin pressure did occur. Functional heating may have been able to keep the windows clear.
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Those F16s shot down the aircraft because it was near Washington DC and the pilot was not responding. That’s what they do after 911. They don’t care if it’s radio failure.
True gamer mentality.
AGAIN????
Aren’t pilots required to take the experimental mRNA shots..that have caused serious heart issues to many?… couldn’t possibly be that though
Something something just ain’t right
@1:23
So they were just going for a joyride round trip? I would think they had planned to land after they got to the destination. Or were they just going sight seeing? Do people with private planes do that? I know people who just go for a drive in a car just to go for a drive.
You don’t need to coordinate with driveway traffic control to park at your house. Use your brain.
What are you talking about?
My point is if I’m travelling by airplane I’m going somewhere. When I get to the destination I expect the plane to land. This guy is telling us that it’s possible the plane reached its destination and just turned around? I’m not a pilot, but I would expect that I set the autopilot, land and then reset it to travel home after I took off again.
What a heartbreaking tragedy. Thankfully, no one on the ground was harmed. 🙏😔
Reminder ro all pilots to check their cabin altitude
Paid hit. Look into it. Who she was and doing
The news is ignoring the 5000 lb. gorilla in the room! People keep “passing out”dying strangely and suddenly. Hmmm, was he vaxxed?!?!?!
Almost heaven West- Virginia
Trains are fitted with a “dead man’s switch”. Something similar should be fitted to planes, for example if no input is made within the last 15mins you have to press the button and if you don’t the plane reduces to a breathable altitude, holds current heading, masks drop and the transponder changes to an emergency code. After a bit an alarm could be played in the cabin like “pilot unresponsive”.
That’s not useful for oxygen. 3 minutes or less, even if you’re a well trained diver. 5 minutes with no oxygen = brain damage. 7 minutes = heart failure. I thought liberals were supposed to be educated?
So sad for that cute little baby 💔
That has happened before to a civil airliner as well. Helios Flight 522. The sudden loss of cabin pressure knocked almost everyone out. That plane too was caught by F-16s and all the pilots could do was watch the airliner crash.
Awwww 🙁 poor rich people. So relatable.
I was on that plane, it was scary
Shot Down thats why flares were mentioned no one needs a flare to get their attention if a fighter jet comes close to you.
an unconscious pilot could be the most unfortunate thing to ever exist… (with all due respect 🙏🏼)
How do you fly 300 miles in that region of U.S. with no radio contact before being intercepted….. ????
Very obvious that this was a political murder of a Trump donor and his family. Look at the crash site. There’s nothing but white ash in a hole in a forest. That’s an obvious shoot down with gallium tipped ATA missiles. If in fact someone were trying to crash a plane into DC, the Whitehouse has STA defense batteries on the roof. The Whitehouse can blow up aircraft miles away from the Mall in DC. This was certainly a murder of a Republican by the Democrat Party globalist terrorist fascist marxist cabal.
No anyone on board have iPhone or any phone that can communicate with? the Plane is unmarked? and NORAD doesn’t know who is in that plane?🤔
Missiles can make a sonic boom also.
If the pilot didn’t talk after 15 minutes after take off then it flew almost all the way to New York, did a u turn and flew back towards Tennessee. If they lost cabin pressure how did the plane do a u turn? If the pilot did the u turn why was he not talking on the radio? Seems fishy
Autopilot. Not everything is a conspiracy.
@NathanM4A1 Does autopilot usually turn around and go home?
@Russ Rask If a return leg is programmed in. The pilot may have programmed both leg.
It was shot down by obiden crime family.
Family on board supported Trump.
That’s why you need 2 pilots
OUT OF FUEL? HAHAHAHAA.That plane was shot down by the United States Air Force….
More like they tried to turn back from the jets and got shot down
Maybe this is one thing msm wont lie about for a change..i hope it didn’t get shot down .
People say that incidents with a planes are much more rare than cars, but you are far more likely to survive in a car crash than a plane.
Everyone on that plane was probably long dead before they crashed.
That’s not a sonic boom. That’s an Army Howitzer firing. Hear them daily past few months. Shakes the ground and I’m 45 minutes from the base.
I don’t know…
I hope they were all unconscious before this tragic fate. It’s some relief thinking they didn’t know what was happening and felt nothing. However I really wish things could have gone differently. Prayers for the families of the pilot, mom&baby and nanny.
They were undoubtedly dead by the time of the crash.
Why haven’t we seen current or former NTSB personnel on TV talking about this incident? Odd.
Lies. Straight up lies.
A biz jet as a fighter jet in certain instances I read about can glide over 400 nautical miles with no engines
Where were these f-16s on Sept 11?
Seems like they are hiding the real story, could it be that the 2 fighter jets shot down the plane and now they are twisting the story so “they” don’t get the blame, as it turn’d to be a millionaires family in the private plane? something is fishy, which they are hiding.
Any chance this plane was actually shot down?
😢😢😢😢
I sure hope they find out what caused it
I wonder what about the rich husband in all this?
A plane can be shot down if it’s over restricted air space and there is no response from the pilot.
Pilot error lack of gas
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see ✨
A tragedy. Small consolation but at least no-one on the ground was hurt.