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.

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

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

The kite was later confiscated from a family in Gravelly Point park. Reporter A warm spring weekend in Washington, D.C. led to a close call after a kite hit a United Airlines plane making a ...

Gravelly Point, part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, is under the purview of the National Park Service. It's across the Potomac River from the National Mall, where the Blossom Kite Festival ...

The cleanup event aims to improve water quality and protect wildlife habitats in the Potomac River, which supplies drinking water to over five million people.

over Gravelly Point, you're only 100 to 200 feet above the ground, so that's a really critical phase of flight for the pilots." Oakes said he also watched as Washington Metropolitan Airports ...

Police at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC confiscated a kite ... Video footage of kites flying at Gravelly Point showed how close to the ground it took place. While the incident may ...