A kite appears to have hit a passenger jet as it flew near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Saturday afternoon, United Airlines said.

Police confiscate child’s kite after collision with United Airlines plane as it lands at Washington DC airport - Federal regulations prohibit kite-flying near an airport ...

While the incident may seem harmless, the amount of harm the kite could have caused to the aircraft entirely depends on the ...

A United flight from Houston appeared to have struck a kite while landing at Washington Reagan National Airport on Saturday.

Officers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department received reports on Saturday of a kite flying at Gravelly Point, a park just north of an airport runway, Emily McGee ...

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said kite-flying is not allowed at Gravelly Point in Arlington, Virginia, as it poses a risk to planes landing at DCA.

Oakes said he also watched as Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority officers confiscated the kite from a family in the Arlington park. WMAA said they later returned the kite. "Airports Authority ...

"We are aware of reports that a kite struck UA flight 654 from Houston to Reagan Airport in Washington D.C.," the statement read. "The aircraft landed safely, customers deplaned normally and upon ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — United Airlines said that a kite may have hit one of its planes that was landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The airline said that the kite hit United Flight 654, ...