Pilots blinded by hand-held laser beams on the ground
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 @ 10:23 AM
FIVE more cases of pilots being blinded with laser beams have been reported at Manises airport (Valencia).
At least 40 'attacks' of this kind were registered last summer, and prompt action by National Police led to the arrest of a man caught in the act of shining lasers at the cockpit of planes, as well as tracing many of the others to a building about five miles from the airport and a location in Sagunto, about half an hour north of Valencia along the coast.
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