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Re:FAA Releases Data Showing Trends in Dangerous Laser Strikes by Fricken on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:02AM (#28389668)
Of the 1000s of incidents that get reported each year, I'm still waiting to hear about the aircraft that has gone down because someone pointed a consumer grade laser into the cockpit.

Is it an obnoxious thing to do? Certainly, but claims that it's dangerous don't have any legitimacy if there's no evidence to back it up.

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Re:FAA Releases Data Showing Trends in Dangerous Laser Strikes by javierbyte on Thursday September 02, 2021 @06:44AM (#28390495)
> I'm still waiting to hear about the aircraft that has gone down

So sad to hear. No one shines a laser on an aircraft accidentally, and it is not like the police are using lasers as an excuse to systematically punish a minority. We don't need to wait for a tragedy to happen here.

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