Fighter Jet’s Sonic Boom Rocks D.C. While Responding To Plane That Later Crashed

A loud sonic boom that rocked the Washington, D.C., area on Sunday came from a fighter jet that was scrambled to respond to a small aircraft that entered a no-fly zone and later crashed in Virginia, according to officials. The trespassing Cessna Citation did not respond to authorities who tried to contact the plane and is believed to have been on autopilot, a source told Reuters. The City of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management said the “explosion” that many people online reported hearing came from the fighter jet sent to...