Pressure loss led to private jet crash after Sonic Boom Scare, says Report says

A non -repeating private plane that in 2023 attracted a reaction from military jets, Sonic tree In and around Washington, DC, most likely suffered a loss of cabin pressure before it crashed in Virginia, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released on Tuesday.

All four people on board were killed when the private business jet in June 2023 near Montebello, VA. said in his report That the aircraft probably suffered a loss of cabin pressure, which led to a lack of oxygen and the pilot and the three passengers incapacitated for work.

The board also discovered that the pilot operated the aircraft without additional oxygen, which contributed to the accident.

The cause of the pressure loss was unclear, the report said.

The aircraft, a Cessna 560 Citation V, had a number of maintenance problems that were marked, including various related to the printing and environmental control system, according to the report. Two days before the flight, maintenance crews noted that there was no oxygen mask on a pilot -sided and that the additional oxygen levels were so low that oxygen masks would not have been used if the cabin lost pressure.

There was no evidence that these issues were tackled before the flight, according to the report.

The plane left on 4 June 2023 from the municipal airport of Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tenn.

The pilot probably became incapacitated for work when he climbed to a cruising height of 34,000 feet, the report said.

Instead of landing on Long Island, the plane, which seemed to be on the steering machine, turned around and flew over Washington. Military jets sent to make contact with the plane traveled with supersonic speeds that a loud tree produced in the region.

The pilots of the military jets, who used radio transmissions, refugee and torches to try to intercept the private aircraft, noticed that the Cessna pilot was “completely over” and “immobile”, according to the report.

Around 3:22 pm the plane started “a high speed, near vertical descent” in Bergen just north of Montebello, from, the report said.

The impact of the crash created a crater and wreck was spread over the place of the accident.

The victims were identified as Adina Azarian; her 2-year-old daughter; Her babysitter and the pilot.

The Jet was owned by Encore Motors of Melbourne, a company in Florida. The management of the company could not be reached immediately for comment on Tuesday evening.