A security scare at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday prompted evacuation of Congress after a small airplane from the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team flew over a baseball game, police said.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi called the alarm an "outrageous and frightening mistake" by the Federal Aviation Administration for its failure to alert Capitol Police to the pre-planned performance over the Washington Nationals baseball stadium.
Police later said the plane was a military aircraft carrying members of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team. The FAA did not notify police in advance about the approved military flight for military appreciation night at Nationals Stadium, Capitol police told congressional staff in a letter.
The FAA statement did not say whether the agency had alerted Capitol Police to the flight, which took off from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. "The unnecessary panic caused by this apparent negligence was particularly harmful for members, staff and institutional workers still grappling with the trauma of the attack on their workplace on January 6th," Pelosi said in a statement late on Wednesday, referring to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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