Kite confiscated after having apparently hit a united plane in the Washington region

A kite seems to have struck a jet of passengers when he stole near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Saturday afternoon, United Airlines said.

The airline said it was aware of the information that a kite had hit United Flight 654 and that the flight from Houston has landed safely.

“Customers have moved normally,” he said, “and after inspection, there was no damage to the plane.”

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Authority police department, which patrols the national and Dulles international airport, said that a kite was “briefly confiscated” from someone to a gravelly point because it was flying in the limited airspace.

“The flight of kite is prohibited in Gravelly Point due to the landing of low-flying aircraft in DCA,” the ministry said in a statement.

Jamie Larounis, travel analyst, said he was in Gravelly Point on Saturday with a friend and a few hundred others to take advantage of one of the first days of hot weekend when he saw the kite hit an airplane and called the airport police.

He said that 10 or more kite stolen from the space of the park just north of the main national track track, while planes went down to land from the north.

For unknown reasons, Larounis said: “A kite has gradually become higher and higher.”

He said that he had spotted the United flight approaching and saw him hitting the kite between an engine and the fuselage.

The kite plunged, he said, but briefly reappeared in the air before being seen on the ground with a family, its rope gets tangled and ball.

The airport police arrived with emergency lights and activated sirens, and the police began to interview the family – two adults and a child – while they took possession of the kite, said Larounis.

“This kite was sent back to its owner shortly later and no accusation was filed,” said Emily McGee, spokesperson for the airport police service.

She said in the press release that the police warned some of the park enthusiasts that the flight of kite is prohibited in Gravelly Point.

Gravellly Point, which is part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, is within the reach of the National Park Service. It is through the Potomac River of the National Mall, where the Blossom kite festival, part of the National Blossom Festival Cherry Blossom celebrating the spring, took place on Saturday, the airport police announced.

A festival spokesman said he was not linked to the activity in Gravelly Point.

The United 654 flight started from its door at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston at 11:59 am and arrived at its national door Reagan at 4:17 p.m., about 19 minutes late, according to Flight Tracker Flightaware.

Federal regulations prohibit the flight of kite near an airport and the ban on driving them more than 500 feet. If a special authorization is granted, an opinion to the pilots must be issued, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. No kite flight opinion was found in the agency’s database for Saturday in the Reagan national district.

The incident took place following a handful of aviation accidents and quasi-accidents this year, including the collision of a jet of passengers from US airlines and a blackhawk helicopter of the US military near Reagan national on January 29, which killed the 67 people in the two planes.