{"id":430437,"date":"2026-09-09T07:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430437\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:50:22","slug":"houston-bound-southwest-flight-from-reagan-national-lands-at-bwi-after-bird-strike-wtop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430437\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-bound Southwest flight from Reagan National lands at BWI after bird strike \u2013 WTOP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Southwest Airlines flight from the D.C. area to Houston, Texas, made an unscheduled stop in Baltimore, Maryland, after the aircraft struck a bird Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crew reported the bird strike after Southwest Flight 1379 took off from Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Boeing 737 MAX-8 landed safely at BWI Marshall Airport at around 3:15 p.m., the FAA and the airline said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe pilots followed procedures and the flight landed uneventfully,\u201d Southwest said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At BWI, passengers were moved to another aircraft. According to FlightAware.com, their flight departed BWI for Houston\u2019s Hobby Airport at 5:05 p.m. and was scheduled to land at 7:36 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Related stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bird strikes can be dangerous for aircraft, passengers and crew members. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/airports\/airport_safety\/wildlife\/arp-Wildlife-Strike-Report-1990-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">August 2026 FAA report<\/a> said wildlife strikes killed 89 people and destroyed 128 civil and military aircraft between 1990 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2026 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southwest Airlines flight from the D.C. area to Houston, Texas, made an unscheduled stop in Baltimore, Maryland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-430437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}