The loss of pressure led to a private jet crash after the sound boom fear

A non -reacting private aircraft, which drew a reaction of military jets in 2023 and caused a sound boom in and around Washington, DC, most likely suffered a loss of cabin pressure before it fell into Virginia, the national transportation Safety Board said in a report published on Tuesday.

All four people on board were killed when the private business jet near Montebello, Virginia, went down in June 2023. In its report, the NTSB said that the plane most likely suffered a loss of cabin printing, which led to a lack of oxygen and the failure of the pilot and the three passengers.

The board also found that the pilot operated the plane without additional oxygen and contributed to the accident.

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

The aircraft, a Cessna 560 quote V, had a number of maintenance problems that were subjected to the report, including several in connection with the printing and environmental control system. Two days before the flight, the maintenance teams found that there was no pilot side oxygen mask and that the supplementary oxygen content was so low that oxygen masks had not been used if the cabin had lost the pressure.

There was no evidence that these problems were addressed before the flight, the report says.

The plane started on June 4, 2023 at 1:15 p.m. from Elizabethton Airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and drove to Long Island Macarthur Airport in Ronkonkoma.

The pilot was probably put out of action when it rose to a cruise height of 34,000 feet, the report said.

Instead of landing on Long Island, the plane, which seemed to be on a autopilot, turned and flew over Washington. Military jets that were sent to contact the plane drove with excess sounds that create a loud boom in the entire region.

The pilots of the military jets, which used radio transmissions, flight maneuvers and torches to intercept the private aircraft, observed that the Cessna pilot was “completely collapsed” and “motionless”, according to the report.

Around 3:22 p.m. the plane began “a high speed near vertical descent” to the mountains north of Montebello, Virginia, in the report.

The effects of the crash caused a crater and the wrecks was distributed on the scene of the accident.

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

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