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The private plane that crashed into a mountainous area in Virginia after becoming unresponsive flying over the [https://www.ft.com/search?q=capital capital] echoes the 1999 death of golfer Payne Stewart whose Learjet flew for thousands of miles before crashing into fields.<br>Stewart's Learjet was en route from Orlando to Dallas on October 25, 1999, when it lost cabin pressure and flew aimlessly across the country with the professional golfer aboard. <br>The Learjet 35 aircraft continued to fly for thousands of miles with the pilot and passengers unresponsive before eventually crashing when it ran out of fuel in  fields, [https://www.newsweek.com/search/site/killing killing] five people. <br>In the case of Stewart's flight, [https://www.tokopedia.com/rekomendasi/11387203185 bokep indonesia] the plane lost cabin pressure, causing the occupants to lose consciousness after becoming deprived of oxygen.<br>      Investigators said the Learjet crashed after the aircraft failed to pressurize.<br><br>Stewart (pictured) and four others died<br>        Rescue personnel walk past the scene of the crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart in October 1999<br>        A large external piece of Payne Stewart's Learjet 35 is taken for examination after the crash <br>The journey began in Florida with the destination set for Texas, where Stewart and his companions had a business engagement. <br>The aircraft continued climbing past its assigned altitude but then failed to make the westward turn toward Dallas and instead continued flying on a northwestern course, traveling over the southern and midwestern U.S.<br><br>for almost four hours and 1,500 miles.  <br>Air traffic controllers became concerned when they were unable to establish communication with the plane and F-16 fighter jets were deployed to intercept and investigate the situation.<br>After reaching the Learjet, the fighter pilots observed the cockpit windows to be frosted, suggesting a loss of cabin pressure. <br>        The National Transportation Safety Board faces a wall of journalists during a press conference following the plane crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart in October 1999<br>        A South Dakota state trooper points to the sky over the scene near Mina, South Dakota, where Stewart's plane came down following pressurization failure during its  flight to Dallas, Texas<br>Despite attempts to establish visual contact with the occupants or communicate with them, there was no response. <br>The Learjet continued its pre-programmed flight plan, suggesting the crew and passengers had become unconscious due to [http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=oxygen%20deprivation oxygen deprivation]. <br>The National Transportation Safety Board [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=conducted conducted] an investigation to determine the cause of the accident and concluded that the probable cause of the accident was incapacitation of the flight crew due to hypoxia, a lack of oxygen. <br>A subsequent investigation [https://www.newsweek.com/search/site/revealed revealed] that a small hole in the plane's pressurization system caused a gradual loss of cabin pressure, leading to the crew and passengers succumbing to hypoxia.<br>        Florida woman and NRA Director posted a heartbreaking tribute to her daughter and granddaughter after it was confirmed that no one survived as unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital before [https://app.photobucket.com/search?query=crashing crashing] on Sunday afternoon<br>        The Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island's MacArthur Airport but it made a u-turn after reaching the New York area<br>        On its return to the Virginia area, the plane flew extremely close to the capital, although was at high altitude<br>By comparison, in Sunday's crash the Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island's MacArthur Airport. <br>Inexplicably, the plane [https://www.savethestudent.org/?s=appeared appeared] to reach the New York area then made nearly a 180-degree turn over Long Island and flew a straight path back down over Washington D.C.<br><br>before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30pm.<br>It was not immediately clear why the plane was non-responsive or why it crashed.<br>The plane flew directly over the nation's capital, though it was technically flying above some of the most heavily restricted airspace in the nation.<br>As in the Payne Stewart crash, a military jet was scrambled to respond to the small plane, which wasn't responding to radio transmissions.<br>        <br>        The Rumpels are large-scale donors to conservative political candidates, including former President Donald Trump, having given a combined $250,000 to a PAC supporting Trump's 2020 campaign <br>Flight tracking sites showed the jet suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing in the St.<br><br>Mary's Wilderness.<br>The North American Aerospace Defense Command later said in a statement that the 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.<br>The U.S.<br><br>military attempted to contact the pilot, who was unresponsive as the  Cessna aircraft appeared to be flying on autopilot.<br>'During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares - which may have been visible to the public - in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot,' the statement said.<br>'Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground.<br><br>Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.'<br>Virginia State Police said troopers were notified of the potential crash shortly before 4pm and rescuers reached the crash site by foot around four hours later.<br>No survivors were found, police said.<br>Rumpel told the  of his family members' likely last moments, saying 'they all just would have gone to sleep and never woke up.' <br>State police confirmed the wreckage of the plane was found in the Staunton/Blue Ridge Parkway area, in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no [https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=survivors survivors] were found.<br>'At 3:50 p.m.<br><br>Sunday (June 4, 2023), the [https://www.huffpost.com/search?keywords=Virginia Virginia] State Police was notified of a possible aircraft crash in the Staunton/Blue Ridge Parkway region,' a spokesperson for Virginia State Police said. <br>'Search efforts by the Virginia State Police, Augusta County Sheriff's Office and Augusta County Fire-Rescue immediately got underway by ground and air across the region. <br>'Shortly before 8 p.m.<br>Sunday (June 4, 2023), first [https://www.change.org/search?q=responders responders] were able to reach the crash site by foot. <br>'State police has suspended its search efforts. No survivors were located.'<br>The plane that crashed was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida. A Cessna Citation can carry between seven and 12 passengers.<br>          Authorities secure the entrance to Mine Bank Trail, an access point to the rescue operation along the Blue Ridge Parkway where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia<br>          Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St.<br><br>Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway<br>        A photo Barbara Rumpel had previously shared online of her young granddaughter<br>        The plane that crashed was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida.<br><br>A Cessna Citation can carry between seven and 12 passengers<br>John Rumpel, who runs the company, told  that his daughter, two-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. <br>They were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said.<br>Rumpel, a pilot, told the newspaper he didn't have much information from authorities but hoped his family didn't suffer and suggested the plane could've lost pressurization.<br>'I don't think they've found the wreckage yet,' Rumpel told the newspaper.<br><br>'It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed.'<br>