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The errant private Cessna plane that crashed in Virginia yesterday after spooking Pentagon officials and scrambling two F-16 jets was likely flying on autopilot when it performed a mysterious U-turn towards Washington DC after cabin pressure failed and caused everyone on board to lose consciousness.
The jet was carrying Adina Azarian, her two-year-old daughter Aria, their nanny and the pilot, who has not yet been named. It took off at 1.13pm from Elizabethton Airport in Tennessee and was scheduled to land at MacArthur Airport in Islip, on Long Island.
Instead, at 2.45pm, the plane approached MacArthur but then turned around and flew south again, alerting DC officials.
No one on board answered calls from the ground, prompting the need for two F-16 fighter jets from Joint Base Andrews to rush to its side to investigate. They flew with such velocity that a sonic boom was heard over parts of DC and Virginia.
The jet was carrying Adina Azarian, her two-year-old daughter, their nanny and the pilot, who has not yet been named. It took off at 1.13pm from Elizabethton Airport in Tennessee and was scheduled to land at MacArthur Airport in Islip, on Long Island. Instead, it flew north then performed an about-turn and then crashed in Virginia
Adina Azarian and her two-year-old daughter Aria died in the crash. They were traveling with their nanny, who has not yet been named, but who also lost their life
Once in the air, the F-16 pilots reported seeing the Cessna pilot slumped over in the cockpit. Within moments, the Cessna crashed, tumbling a terrifying 2,800ft-a-minute into St Mary's Wilderness, around 175 miles southwest of Washington DC.
While the tragedy remains under investigation, aviation experts tell DailyMail.com it was likely down to cabin pressure failure which will have caused the pilot - and everyone else - to pass out from a lack of oxygen.
When the plane approached Long Island, rather than landing it diverted back to the south.
Kyle Bailey, a former FAA Safety Team Representative, told DailyMail.com it was likely the result of the pilot programming his route.
'What appears to have happened as the plane was flying to Islip, it’ was very high.
'They very well might have been incapacitated [by then]. The pilot has waypoints in the program, it's similar to a GPS system. So the autopilot might have been flying him to Islip, then the next point could have very well have been the airport they departed from.
'It could have been towards DC or somewhere down south. It looks like it was affixed in that direction.
'In that scenario, it's likely the plane was flying itself.'
Azarian's two-year-old daughter, seen here with her mom in a recent photo, also died in the crash
Barbara Rumpel announced the deaths of her daughter and granddaughter yesterday
Adina's parents are prominent GOP donors, John and Barbara Rumpel, shown with Trump in March 2020
'It's most likely a loss of cabin pressure or the
