I’ve flown that path to ISP (MacArthur Airport) a few times. The route takes you crossing the south shore going north and makes a left U turn about the middle of Long Island as it descends into its landing path. Be curious to know how low in altitude that plane got since they were so close to the landing destination.
Wow, sounds plausible, so in that scenario this plane should have been singled out in New York airspace as basically an unguided missile—why wasn’t D.C. advised early by someone extrapolating the flight path of the pilot-free-but-still-flying-jet over the White House? As it was, they scrambled last minute and the jet did fly over the White House, something that should NEVER have happened UNLESS it was determined without a doubt by that point that there was no risk of an actual attack.