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One answer is the direction of the flight. The sonic booms spread forward and out.
Same reason you don't hear a sonic boom when a rocket takes off but you can hear the booms when the Space Shuttle was coming back to Florida or the SpaceX Dragon first stages land on the landing zones on the coast.