“People heard a very loud noise in Paris. It was not an explosion, it was a fighter plane that exceeded the speed of sound (1,236 km / h),” the Paris Police Department announced and exclaimed on Twitter. Call people to stop calling the police.
In a statement on the same day, the French Defense Ministry confirmed that a fighter can exceed the speed of sound in an emergency, according to Reuters. The French Defense Ministry added that the fighter was sent to support a commercial aircraft that lost contact with the ground air traffic control station.
Noise was heard throughout the city and windows moved on September 30. On social media, many people posted comments about the noise that was heard throughout the city, but left no trace of the damage.
In a match at the French Open tennis tournament, Swiss tennis star Stan Wawrinka and German rival Dominik Koepfer paused, expressing surprise and anxiety as noise echoed throughout the stadium.
The noise confused Parisians, especially after a knife attack outside the former newsroom of satirist Charlie Hebdo last week that the French government said was a terrorist attack.
Last week, a man with a steak knife assaulted and injured two people in front of the newspaper’s former newsroom. Charlie hebdo in the center of Paris.
The attack took place three weeks after a trial in Paris, which tried accomplices in the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s newsroom and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015. As a result, 17 people were killed, including staff. Charlie hebdo and a French policewoman.