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What happened and when has prompted concerns about how the incident was handled. The chain of events set off by an unresponsive plane that eventually crashed Sunday in Virginia continues to raise questions about what happened on board and how the incident was handled. Six fighter jets were scrambled on the afternoon of June 4 to try to intercept the private Cessna jet, originally on a flight from Tennessee to New York, as it encroached on restricted airspace around Washington D.C. The plane eventually went down in a mountainous area of Virginia, killing all four people on board. But because the fighter jets weren't launched until long after the plane first went unresponsive, and after it turned around in New York without landing, it's unclear why NORAD waited to intercept the plane until it was about 20 miles northeast of the nation's capital. MORE: F-16s scrambled 1.5 hours after contact lost with unresponsive jet that veered to DC White House spokesman John Kirby dec...

Rep. Mary Peltola's, D-Alaska, office announced Wednesday that her husband died in a plane accident in Alaska. Rep. Mary Peltola's, D-Alaska, office announced Wednesday that her husband died in a plane accident in Alaska. "We are devastated to share that Mary’s husband , Eugene Peltola Jr. -- 'Buzzy' to all of us who knew and loved him -- passed away earlier this morning following a plane accident in Alaska," Peltola's chief of staff Anton McParland said in a statement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "He was one of those people that was obnoxiously good at everything. He had a delightful sense of humor that lightened the darkest moments. He was definitely the cook in the family. And family was most important to him. He was completed devoted to his parents, kids, siblings, extended family, and friends -- and he simply adored Mary. We are heartbroken for the family's loss," McParland said. MORE: Mitt Romney not seekin...