Army plane heading for parachute jump at Nationals Park prompts Capitol evacuation
landed safely on the outfield grass before the Nationals took on the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Representatives of the Golden Knights could not be reached for comment. Nationals officials referred questions to the Federal Aviation Administration, which said in a statement: “The FAA takes its role in protecting the national airspace seriously and will conduct a thorough and expeditious review of the events this evening and share updates. We know our actions affect others, especially in our nation’s capital region, and we must communicate early and often with our law enforcement partners.
Pelosi said Congress will look at the results of a “thorough after-action review” to determine “what precisely went wrong today and who at the Federal Aviation Administration will be held accountable for this outrageous and frightening mistake.”D.C. police spokeswoman Brianna Burch first confirmed that the alarm was caused by the Golden Knights plane headed to Nationals Park, based on information from the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
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