"Police officers responded to reports of kite-flying at Gravely Point yesterday, an activity which is not allowed in that area due to the danger to low-flying aircraft," the statement read.

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 ...

The aircraft, a Boeing 737 operating as Flight 654 from Houston, reportedly struck a kite flying over a park located near Washington Reagan National Airport, CBS News reported. According to Air ...

said air traffic control communications with the flight's pilots. Police responded to reports of a kite flying at Gravely Point, which is prohibited in that area due to the dangers it poses to a ...

The pilots reported the kite flying over Gravelly Point, a park just off the runway along the banks of the Potomac River on the Virginia side, according to Air Traffic Control audio. Flying kites ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — A United plane made contact with a kite while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport Saturday afternoon, witnesses told WUSA9. The pilot of United Airlines Flight 654 ...

Upon responding to the park, the airport’s authority said officers briefly confiscated a kite flying in the restricted air space. “That kite was returned to its owner shortly later and no ...