US EditionPlane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say
- An unresponsive business jet crashed in rural Virginia killing four people, the pilot and three passengers, after flying over Washington D.C., but investigators are still trying to identify the cause of the crash. One hypothesis is a loss of oxygen, which happens when someone's brain is deprived of adequate oxygen, specifically if a non-pressurized plane flies above 10,000 feet without supplemental oxygen.
- Hypoxia happens slowly and the aircraft is often set to fly on autopilot; however, in this case, the plane suddenly turned around in New York and headed south again.
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Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air controllers during ascent, officials say
Experts continued to speculate that the pilot likely lost consciousness from a lack of oxygen inside the jet when it climbed above 10,000 feet, the altitude that typically requires cabin pressurization.
Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say
Only minutes into a doomed journey that ended on a remote Virginia mountain, the pilot of a business jet was not responding to air traffic control instructions and the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security…
Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say
Only minutes into a doomed journey that ended on a remote Virginia mountain, the pilot of a business jet was not responding to air traffic control instructions and the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security and law enforcement agencies, according to federal aviation officials.
Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers minutes after takeoff, feds say
Despite being out of contact on its ascent Sunday afternoon, the jet that had just taken off from a Tennessee airport continued toward its intended destination.
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