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2008-08-18 Britain
Laser blinds passenger jet pilot
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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-08-18 12:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 I can see the time when some brainless idiot will be charged with multiple homicide.
Posted by tipover 2008-08-18 13:21||   2008-08-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#2 "She said there were no reports of injuries. "

There is also no report of the 19 YO name or nationality. Dis-functional soccer hooligan perhaps???
Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-08-18 13:46||   2008-08-18 13:46|| Front Page Top

#3 We've had these incidents in the past. Usually it is some clueless maroon who got a new toy and can't wait to show it off.

I'd wait to get more demographic data on the perp before going off.
Posted by DanNY 2008-08-18 13:47||   2008-08-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#4 We had laser glasses at work when we were putting in ceilings with a laser level. Maybe pilots should start carrying a pair in the cockpit.
Posted by Mad Eye Glomomp4639 2008-08-18 14:11||   2008-08-18 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The "local demographic" is what made me post this.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-08-18 17:09||   2008-08-18 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 No details on the altitude or distance of the plane when it was hit by the laser. From my limited experience with lasers, it seems like it would be difficult for a person to hit the pilot of a moving plane with a laser. Who has access to lasers with sufficient energy to hit the cockpit of a moving aircraft? Laser beams do tend to spread some over distance.
Posted by Bill Shusorong1219 2008-08-18 20:16||   2008-08-18 20:16|| Front Page Top

#7 $200 or so will buy one over the Net that will illuminate the cockpit and effectively blind a pilot during a landing approach.
Posted by lotp 2008-08-18 20:32||   2008-08-18 20:32|| Front Page Top

#8 $200 or so will buy one over the Net that will illuminate the cockpit and effectively blind a pilot during a landing approach.

AND... $ 59.00 will buy you one of these at harbor freight, which can probably be reverse-engineered into a set of goggles sufficient to keep a pilot from getting blinded by a momentary pulse, and show you what you can use as a starting point to use as window protection, at which point hopefully the pilot can still use instruments.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-18 20:55||   2008-08-18 20:55|| Front Page Top

#9 
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Posted by w x james 2008-08-18 21:49||   2008-08-18 21:49|| Front Page Top

#10 The sinktrap is not banning, Data.
Posted by Darrell 2008-08-18 21:52||   2008-08-18 21:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I never met a white man named darrell so you must be a nigger. fuck you.

I DEMAND to be banned again. Lotpig has BANNED me 3 fucking times and i come back again in 3 minutes. fuck him
Posted by Data Analyst 2008-08-18 22:44||   2008-08-18 22:44|| Front Page Top

#12 I never met a white man named darrell so you must be a nigger. fuck you.

I DEMAND to be banned again. Lotpig has BANNED me 3 fucking times and i come back again in 3 minutes. fuck him
Posted by Data Analyst 2008-08-18 22:46||   2008-08-18 22:46|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm just a sorry loser. Sorry everyone. I'm just going to play Second Life until the Democratic convention and then who knows what...
Posted by Data Ana1ist">Data Ana1ist  2008-08-18 22:54|| http://www.rantburg.com]">[http://www.rantburg.com]  2008-08-18 22:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Sad.
Posted by Semble Watkins 2008-08-18 22:57||   2008-08-18 22:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, what about Larry's brother Darrell, and his other brother Darrell?
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-18 23:10||   2008-08-18 23:10|| Front Page Top

#16 Data Analist, see an Asshole Dr. ASAP, your mama is on the Prostitute Contagion LIST which means you will be one giant Anus Carbuncle very soon. is way disappointed with youse!
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2008-08-18 23:15||   2008-08-18 23:15|| Front Page Top

#17 eep.
Posted by ima moron 2008-08-18 23:20||   2008-08-18 23:20|| Front Page Top

#18 I want cab fare to the nearest bridge
Posted by Waldemar Crerenter9118 2008-08-18 23:21||   2008-08-18 23:21|| Front Page Top

#19 17 & 18 are Trolls posting under other folks names!
Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg  2008-08-18 23:24||   2008-08-18 23:24|| Front Page Top

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