The FAA is stepping up enforcement amid the unrelenting problem of people shining laser pointers at planes and helicopters in the sky. Even with lower traffic last year, the agency reported almost 7,000 laser attacks in 2020, the highest number in five years. (The headline on this video was corrected to reflect the level of laser attacks reported by pilots).
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#FAA #Lasers #Pilots
Nameless heroes
They said nothing about paint guns 🤷♂️😂
All pilots should wear protective glasses when landing
Me: police should tour schools to explain the dangers.
Desantis: no way, police stay out of school, don't you dare overriding parents authority!
I see that a lot of the people leaving comments here must be the same intelligence level as the idiots that would point a laser at a plane.
I didn’t know this was a thing and couldn’t imagine what would be “fun” about it. Are they seeing if they can crash the plane or helicopter? Would they be satisfied if they brought it down?
So they caught 12 out of the 7,000? Nice
The sad thing it..its an excuse to ban the lasers because they know these lasers used by innocent Havana syndrome work!
I think the innocent Havana Syndome victims are using the lasers to protect themselves against direct energy weapons and more deadly weapons being used on them to break off the evil frequencies that are being used on them to kills us with. Stop this damm torture and innocent victims wont need to be using them!
Always Florida. My state is so frikkin ignorant.
video ok
This is so ludicrously exaggerated. At a distance the intensity of the laser beam will be so diminished it will be little more than a nuisance, perhaps slightly illuminating the cabin. Flight instruments will be unaffected, but low light police cameras will be affected. That’s all. Eyes cannot be harmed by such weak lasers at such great distances. These jackasses talking about being “punched in the face” are pathetic.
10 years in prison should do it
i like
The guy who did that even made a TikTok about it
Lies
So the Taliban and ISIS can defeat our us military pilots with cheap 10 dollar hand held green lasers. Maybe that's why they just left all the us jets in Afghanistan cuz they got their eyes burned out. Ok then we're done. The us air force is useless.
Legitimate use of drones scanning for green lasers and their precise coordinates?
Blah
Just make it illegal to buy and sell them.
Waaaay Bigger fines and jail time is needed
These people are lucky I'm not the president. If that were the case, they would wind up in brutal labor camps for 35 years. That includes corporal punishment.
Wake up, people! Your freedoms are about to be eradicated by your stupidity. God forbid that I would be a leader. Then again, too, I'd leave.
Text now I will order some.
Not by black people. We have enough trouble trying to drive a car without cops killing us …
How, why? But only in Ameica I guess.
In US, isn't it forbidden to sell laser light?