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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI: Pilot landing in NYC injured by green laser
FBI: Pilot landing in NYC injured by green laserNEW YORK The FBI is searching for someone who flashed a green laser at least twice into the cockpit of a Delta plane landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, injuring the pilot.
New York Assistant Director George Venizelos says Friday a $10,000 reward is available for information leading to the arrest of whoever shined the laser beam into Delta Flight 1102 just before 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Venizelos says the laser caused flash blindness and severely disrupted the vision of one of the plane's two pilots. He says agents believe the laser originated from somewhere along Queens Boulevard in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.
The plane, traveling from Atlanta, Ga., landed safely.
http://online.wsj.com/article/APb16416fd881a47e7b4abd6716050ac43.html
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FBI: Pilot landing in NYC injured by green laser (Original Post)
FourScore
Mar 2014
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Just so it's clear, pointing a blinding laser beam in the cockpit of a landing aircraft...
Cooley Hurd
Mar 2014
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Just so it's clear, pointing a blinding laser beam in the cockpit of a landing aircraft...
...is like shooting a shotgun at the wing fuel tanks of a landing aircraft. BOTH should be treated the same..
Someone needs to be made an example of for this.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)7. +1
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)2. What kind of cretin does something like this? n/t
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)8. A terrorist. nt
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. See this is why we can't have nice things. n/t
lumpy
(13,704 posts)5. That sort of thing could be classified as attempted murder or a murder conviction.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)6. Airlines should look into something that
Blocks lasers through the cockpit window at lower altitudes, or the pilots wear special glasses, or goggles. What if 200 assholes decided to pull this prank in one night at the same airport. How do you catch them all? Next up drone collisions.