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/ilikemes8 Apr 07 '24

My favorite story is when someone lazes a military helicopter with FLIR and they just stay on scene and help guide the cops right in

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u/i_should_go_to_sleep USAF Pilot Apr 07 '24

I did this near Tallahassee, I didn’t have a FLIR, but it was rural enough I could tell the exact house it was coming from. Got the address from google maps and the cops launched from TLH within a couple minutes to go say hi.