US dilemma in response to DC airspace incursion: ‘Do you shoot or do you not shoot?’

By Mike Brest

Published June 6, 2023 8:09pm ET

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US dilemma in response to DC airspace incursion: ‘Do you shoot or do you not shoot?’ — Search and rescue teams leave the command post at St. Mary's Wilderness en route to the Blue Ridge Parkway to search for the site where a Cessna Citation crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Va., Sunday, June 4, 2023. | (Randall K. Wolf via AP)

The U.S. military scrambled six fighter jets when an unresponsive pilot’s aircraft flew through restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

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