Sonic Sound of a jet rattles Parisians Wednesday

On Wednesday, a fighter jet broke the sound barrier in Paris which in turn rattled Parisians. According to the military, the fighter jet was bound to rescue another aircraft that had lost radio contact. The jet was authorized to travel at a supersonic speed reported media quoting the Spanish military.

"A very loud noise was heard in Paris and in the Paris region. It was not an explosion, it was a fighter jet crossing the sound barrier," Paris police said on Twitter, urging people to stop calling emergency phone lines. The sonic sound that followed the terrorist knife attack last week was more than an emergency for Parisians to call emergency numbers. the sound reverberated in the social media too where people from all over the Paris shared issue of concern

"A Rafale, carrying out an intervention to assist an aircraft that had lost contact, was authorized to break the sound barrier to reach the aircraft in difficulty,” reported AFP quoting a French air force spokesman

Last Friday, two people were wounded in a knife attack by a man wielding a meat cleaver outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in the central Paris.