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  • An unresponsive jet that crashed after flying over Washington had dozens of unresolved maintenance issues, NTSB report says

    05/13/2025 7:05:47 PM PDT · by logi_cal869 · 36 replies
    CNN ^ | 5/13/2025 | Alexandra Skores
    A business jet that flew over Washington with no response from the pilot – prompting a chase by F-16s which caused a sonic boom – likely lost pressure, causing everyone onboard to pass out, according to the final report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The pilot and three passengers died in the crash. On June 4, 2023, the Cessna Citation was flying from Elizabethton, in eastern Tennessee, to Long Island, New York when the pilot stopped responding to air traffic control. The jet rose to 34,000 feet and flew over Long Island and then turned back to the southwest,...