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A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier as it rushed to join a commercial airliner that had lost contact with air traffic control today, causing a sonic boom that reverberated in Paris and its suburbs, the Defense Ministry said. The sonic boom shook the windows of the capital, scattered …

A great noise was caused by a sonic boom like a military plane. Paris: A thunderous noise that terrorized Parisians on Wednesday was caused by the sonic boom of a fighter plane that broke the sound barrier, police in the French capital said. The army said the plane had been …