Sonic boom could land pilots in hot water
A U.S. Marine Corp F-5E Tiger II jet and an F/A-18 Hornet inadvertently broke the sound barrier on Wednesday afternoon causing a panic among residents of Yuma, Arizona.
The pilots were told not to go supersonic within 30,000 feet [altitude] or 30 miles from a residential area and investigations found that they were at 14,500- to 18,000-feet when they hit Mach 1.
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