Originally Posted by Fredd
There have been other recent alleged incidents. In one of the Tom Clancy novels (Debt of Honor?) Mr. Clark uses some kind of laser to blind a pilot and cause a plane to crash as it was landing. Was that the novel in which a pilot also deliberately crashed a plane into the Capitol Building?
Fredd - that was exactly what I was going to say. Clancy wrote the scene with John Clark & Domingo Chavez using lasers to blind Japanese AWACS pilots on landing, in Debt of Honor, as a prelude to the US Special Forces attack. A few hundred pages later, he has the JAL 747 crashing into the Capitol.
But, of course, that's fiction.