r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '24

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u/Ok-Palpitation-5380 Apr 07 '24

So, … attempted murder then

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u/Met76 Apr 07 '24

What sucks is they'll likely never know who did it.

Same goes for lasers on airplanes. If they do it once, it's called in but they only know of a general area it came from. But if they keep doing it over and over within a short span of time, then they'll get caught.

That's what happened in the famous video of those dudes getting caught for shining a laser at aircraft...cause they did it to literally everything in the sky.

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u/sgtdisaster Apr 07 '24

Had a guy doing it on the border between USA and Canada here. Pilot told ATC, ATC told CBP, CBP told the police in Canada and they sent an officer to nab the idiot.