A pair of U.S. Air Force F-16s tears into the afternoon sky on June 4, 2023, streaking southwest from Joint Base Andrews. They’ve just scrambled from the southern Maryland air base, taking to the skies just before 3 p.m. on a hunt for a suspicious civilian jet.
The intruder is a Cessna Citation 560, a 41-foot-long, two-engine business jet, tail number N611VG. The Citation departed from Elizabethton, Tennessee, bound for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Instead of landing there, the aircraft abruptly turned around over its destination, still at 34,000 feet, and began flying on a high-speed, southwest heading.
Air traffic controllers haven’t been able to reach the Citation by radio since 1:30 p.m., and the cockpit is still silent as the business jet crosses over…
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