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

Officials confirm that a kite reportedly struck a United Airlines flight from Houston to Washington D.C. while it was ...

Gravelly Point, a park across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is just a few hundred feet away from the north end of ...

The United flight landed with no issues, the airline said. Police said they briefly confiscated a kite from Gravelly Point, ...

The aircraft, a Boeing 737 operating as Flight 654 from Houston, reportedly struck a kite flying over a park located near ...

A United Airlines flight from Houston collided with a kite while landing at Washington Reagan National Airport, causing no ...

A United Airlines flight hit a kite while landing at Washington's Reagan National Airport on Saturday afternoon — months ...

Authorities say that the kite was returned to its owner shortly after officers briefly seized it and no charges were filed.

Dylan Oakes said he was at Gravelly Point in Arlington on Saturday afternoon when he saw a kite make contact with a United ...

Black-winged kites (Elanus caeruleus) are small raptors (birds of prey) with high hunting success that prey on small animals such as voles, as shown in the photo. We tracked some kites with GPS ...