Travel News - Phoenix Man sentenced for pointing the laser at 2 commercial aircraft

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20120808phoenix-man-sentenced-pointing-laser-aircraft.html

Unfortunately for him. He will sentenced for 90 days in Maricopa County Jail to pointing the laser at 2 commercial aircraft. He won't do it again. He will accepted apologize to FAA & the pilots, too. He will pay fined from FAA.

Good news to see that he was caught. Hopefully people understand what sort of damage they can cause when they don't properly use lasers.

Good news to see that he was caught. Hopefully people understand what sort of damage they can cause when they don't properly use lasers.

Right, they don't allowed to used the laser. it will hurts the eyes. It will completely blind.

At the speed a plane flies, it should be in and out of a laser beam within fractions of a second, hardly enough time to even notice that there's a laser, let alone pinpoint where it is coming from. That guy had to have intentionally pointed it at the airplanes.

This has been happening more and more lately. Frankly its dangerous and could kill people if the pilots blinded.

In the Dallas / Fort Worth area several air medical helicopters have been spotlighted by lasers in the past 6 months. Even worse with patients onboard in two incidents. No fatalities resulted but caused emergency landings. The offenders were tracked down and are facing a litney of charges but unless there made a example of in public it wont do any good.

Right, they don't allowed to used the laser. it will hurts the eyes. It will completely blind.
There is a wide range of laser safety classes, depending on wavelength and power. Not all lasers will produce long-term injury. The risk from shining in a cockpit can be as much from disorientation and temporary loss of night vision as out-and-out damage to the eye.