The plane, a Cessna ... presumed to be a sonic boom.CreditCredit...Joseph Krygiel “It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed,” Mr. Rumpel said.

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A sonic boom from ... into the crash, the statement said. U.S. Capitol Police officials said they were monitoring the unresponsive pilot along with federal partners as the plane flew nearby ...

Another source told CNN that crash investigators are most interested ... The jets' extraordinary speed caused a sonic boom across the Washington, DC, area, officials said. That means the jets ...

A “sonic boom” from the U.S. military’s response to a plane that drifted into unrestricted ... Aviation officials said they would investigate the crash. The Associated Press reported that ...

A sonic boom was heard across the Washington ... AP Rescuers were able to reach the site of the plane crash hours later on foot in a rural part of Shenandoah Valley, and no survivors were found ...

FROM OFFICIALS ON THE EXPLANATION BEHIND THAT NOISE. WE’VE LEARNED HOW A PLANE CRASH IS CONNECTED TO THIS SONIC BOOM WHICH WE’RE TOLD WAS CAUSED BY AN AUTHORIZED DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FLIGHT.

Investigators concluded that the pilot passed out after the plane lost cabin pressure, and that the lack of extra oxygen contributed to the crash.

Victims named as Adina Azarian, 49, her two-year-old daughter Aria, pilot Jeff Hefner, and nanny Evadnie Smith ...

A huge sonic boom was heard over Washington DC on Sunday ... a loss of cabin pressure and oxygen led to hypoxia and the plane’s crash in Greece in 2005, killing all 121 people on board.