The AOPA Air Safety Institute makes a preliminary assessment of the accident that occurred on June 4, 2023, about a Cessna Citation Jet that crashed into mountainous terrain in southwest Virginia after flying over the nation’s capital, prompting an intercept by F16 fighter jets. The accident tragically took the lives of all four occupants.

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