Kite reportedly makes contact with United flight attempting to land at Reagan National Airport

A United Airlines level reportedly made interaction with a kite portion it was attempting to onshore astatine Reagan National Airport (DCA) connected Saturday afternoon, the hose confirmed successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"We are alert of reports that a kite struck UA formation 654 from Houston to Regan Airport successful Washington D.C.," the connection read.

"The craft landed safely, customers deplaned usually and upon inspection determination was nary harm to the aircraft."

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) besides confirmed the incidental to Fox News Digital and shared details of what transpired.

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United Airlines rider craft are lined up astatine O'Hare International Airport successful Chicago, Illinois, connected May 11, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

"Police officers responded to reports of kite-flying astatine Gravely Point yesterday, an enactment which is not allowed successful that country owed to the information to low-flying aircraft," the connection read.

Gravelly Point is simply a parkland successful Arlington, Virginia, located northbound of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, on the George Washington Parkway, and crossed the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. It is lone a "few 100 feet away" from the runway astatine DCA, according to the park's website.

The bureau said officers warned immoderate individuals astir flying kites and "briefly confiscated a kite." 

"That kite was returned to its proprietor soon aboriginal and nary charges were filed," the bureau said. 

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The MWAA added that they could not corroborate whether a kite deed the plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Fox News Digital that "they person not been made alert of immoderate specified incident."

While it has not yet been determined if the kite really deed the plane, Captain Robert Katz, a seasoned commercialized aviator and formation teacher for 43 years, told WUSA9 that helium doesn't judge the kite made interaction with the level connected Saturday afternoon.

"If the kite had really made interaction with the airplane, we would cognize it," Captain Katz told the outlet. "The kite would person been destroyed and perchance the airplane arsenic well, though not likely." 

Katz besides said that helium believes whoever was flying the kite had been intentionally reckless. 

"That to maine is incredibly irresponsible, and it's going to beryllium a existent agelong for idiosyncratic to assertion they don't know," Katz explained.

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Katz added that successful his 43-year-lomg career, helium had ne'er heard of a kite hitting a level before. He did accidental that commercialized formation interference from the crushed happens frequently, but mostly from radical shining lasers astatine planes. 

This latest incidental comes a time aft a Delta Air Lines level astir crashed midair with a T-38 Air Force pitchy adjacent DCA.

Delta Air Lines Flight 2983, an Airbus A319 headed to Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) erstwhile 4 U.S. Air Force T-38 Talons were inbound to Arlington National Cemetery for a flyover connected March 28, according to the FAA and U.S. Air Force.

The FAA said the Delta level received an "onboard alert" that different craft was nearby, and aerial postulation controllers issued corrective instructions to some aircraft.

The NTSB said it was alert of "a nonaccomplishment of separation" betwixt Delta formation 2983 and different aircraft, soon aft takeoff from DCA.

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"We are presently collecting information, but person not yet launched an investigation," an NTSB spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital.

Both incidents travel months aft the deadly Jan. 29 collision erstwhile an Army chopper and an American Airlines level collided adjacent Reagan National Airport extracurricular of Washington, D.C.

All 67 radical were killed, which included 60 passengers and 4 unit members aboard the American Airlines formation and 3 soldiers aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch contributed to this report. 

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