US F-16 fighter jets scrambled Sunday to respond to an aircraft that ultimately crashed in southwest Virginia, according to a US official.

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia

The fighter jets caused a sonic boom over the US capital that sent some residents into a brief panic

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace in the Washington D.C. area and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said.

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. -- A small plane flying to Long Island crashed in the mountains of Virginia on Sunday. It happened around 3 p.m. in the southwestern part of the state. The Cessna plane took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, heading for MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma.

A Cessna 560 Citation V business jet that took off in Tennessee bound for New York crashed in mountainous terrain near Montebello, Va., Sunday afternoon.

A fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that could be heard and felt across the D.C. area. WASHINGTON — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia,