SCARE SPARKED BY PLANE, PARACHUTISTS AT BASEBALL GAME

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 (FAA) for its failure to alert Capitol Police to the pre-planned performance over the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. The U.S. Capitol Police first said they were tracking an aircraft that posed a “probable threat” to the Capitol complex, and then minutes later said there was no threat and that the building had been evacuated out of an abundance of caution. 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.