F-16 fighter jets fly in formation during Air Force exercises in the Philippines on May 9. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images) Yahoo News explains. See the latest. A sonic boom that rattled residents in the ...

WASHINGTON -- D.C. Air National Guard F-16s were scrambled on Sunday from Maryland -- causing a sonic boom heard throughout large portions of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area -- to ...

WASHINGTON -- D.C. Air National Guard F-16s were scrambled on Sunday from Maryland -- causing a sonic boom heard throughout large portions of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area -- to ...

A sonic boom heard across Washington, D.C., on Sunday was the result of a fighter jet investigating an aircraft in a restricted area, according to U.S. officials. An unresponsive business Cessna 560 ...

A sonic boom was heard across the Washington DC area Sunday afternoon when military jets raced after a private, unresponsive plane that crossed into restricted airspace and later crashed, killing all ...

In a bizarre event earlier today, a private plane that passed over Washington DC's airspace crashed into a mountainous area in Virginia, with the US Department of Defense deploying F-16 fighter jets ...

A small plane headed from Tennessee to New York detoured from its original flight plan and caused fighter jets to scramble with a sonic boom in Washington, D.C., Sunday after reportedly being ...

A sonic boom that rattled residents in the Washington, D.C., area Sunday was caused by F-16 fighter jets scrambling to intercept an unresponsive small plane that later crashed in rural Virginia, ...