A major Republican donor and NRA executive said her daughter and her 2-year-old granddaughter were killed along with the girl’s nanny and the pilot of a private Cessna plane that crashed in Virginia and caused responding military jets to create a sonic boom over the Washington region.
“My family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter,” Barbara Rumpel of Melbourne, Florida, posted on Facebook.
John Rumpel said his daughter, his 2-year-old granddaughter and her nanny were returning home to East Hampton, New York, after a four-day trip to his home in North Carolina.The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport.
Military jets from Joint Base Andrews scrambled to intercept the wayward lane as it approached the nation’s capital. The North American Aerospace Defense Command later said in a statement that an F-16 was authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, which caused a sonic boom that was heard in Washington and parts of Virginia and Maryland.
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