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Blast heard in Paris due to fighter jet breaking sound barrier: Police
1 min read . 04:57 PM ISTReuters- Paris police urged people to stop calling emergency phone lines
A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier as it scrambled to join a commercial jet that had lost contact with air traffic control today, causing a sonic boom that reverberated through Paris and its suburbs, the defence ministry said.
The sonic boom rattled windows in the capital, scattered startled birds and prompted a surge in phone calls to police.
"A Rafale (warplane) based at Saint-Dizier, intervening to assist an airline which had lost contact, was allowed to break the sound barrier to join the airplane in trouble. It broke the sound barrier east of Paris," army spokesman colonel Stephane Spet said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear whether the problem with the commercial jet had been resolved.
The unusually loud blast sent people onto their balconies to see what had caused it. It also prompted intense messaging on social media and a flood of calls to emergency services.
The Paris police prefecture explained what had happened in a statement on Twitter and urged people not to call emergency services about the noise.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.
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