News.com.au has the story:
Australian terror experts are investigating a series of recent laser-pointer attacks on airplanes after several reportedly linked incidents to determine whether they were carried out by an organized group, reports showed. . .
Government officials also are considering a ban on the lasers after pilots of six planes made emergency complaints of the distracting light being shone into the cockpits and had to alter their flight paths into Sydney when they were targeted in a “cluster attack” last Friday.
The planes changed their flight paths into Kingsford Smith airport after pilots were targeted by four green lasers around 10:30 p.m. local time. Authorities said it was a co-ordinated attack lasting 15 minutes. The laser beams appeared to have originated from the Bexley area in southwestern Sydney.
Some sort of countermeasure seems appropriate, but a ban on laser pointers just doesn’t seem workable to me.
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