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NORAD To Conduct Flight Exercise Over DC Area
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Continental U.S. NORAD Region plans a training flight exercise over Washington. The exercise, called Falcon Virgo 10-01, will take place late Wednesday and early Thursday. It will include air force F-16s and Coast Guard helicopters.
F-16 jets intercept plane with unresponsive pilot: US
(AFP) WASHINGTON — Two F-16 fighter jets trailed a small plane with an unresponsive pilot on Wednesday before the aircraft crashed in rural Indiana, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.
The small civilian plane had departed Grand Rapids in Michigan but lost communications with air traffic controllers, NORAD said in a statement.
“Upon intercepting the aircraft, the F-16 pilots reported the pilot was unresponsive,” it said.
The fighter jets followed the aircraft for a little more than an hour until it crashed in a rural area near Winchester in the midwestern state of Indiana at about 10:40 local time (1640 GMT).
Emergency teams and local police had arrived at the crash site but there were no other details immediately available.
NORAD, a joint Canadian and US command charged with preventing air attacks against North America, sometimes scrambles fighter jets to intercept aircraft that lose communications with air traffic controllers.