Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger
Clark and Chavez actually used a three-million candlepower xenon arc light (just checked the passage in the book).
And "Storming Heaven" by Dale Brown is a better analogy to what happened on 9.11, as it details multiple terrorists attacks using commercial airliners.
Thanks
SEA_Tigger - lucky that wasn't on my Tom Clancy final exam.
Here's another article about an incident with a police helicopter:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050101/D87B2G180.html
Person Questioned About Laser Beam, Planes
Dec 31, 11:33 PM (ET)
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A laser beam was aimed at a police helicopter Friday - one of several incidents involving aircraft across the country in the past week - and federal authorities were questioning someone who had been at a house where they said the light had originated.
Officials said no one was hurt when the laser hit the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police helicopter as it flew over an area where a similar incident occurred Wednesday.
Soon after, Port Authority officials and the FBI went to a Parsippany home where they had tracked the laser beam and were questioning a person there in connection with both incidents, said Steve Coleman, an authority spokesman.
Here's a more recent account from CNN on the above:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2ED1232A
Last edited by Fredd; Jan 1, 2005 at 3:56 pm
Reason: to add CNN piece