Today's top story from the United States is about a plane scare in Washington DC that had fighter jets scrambling. A business plane with an unresponsive pilot caused panic at the Capitol as it veered from its course and flew low over the city, prompting an F-16 to take off at supersonic speeds, causing a sonic boom that was caught on several home cameras. The business plane eventually crashed in the neighbouring state of Virginia. More details are awaited.

In other news, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has endorsed Robert F Kennedy, Jr. as his candidate of choice at the 2024 US presidential elections. Dorsey said that Kennedy is the strongest Democratic candidate against Republican hopefuls Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said.

The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over DC before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3.30 pm