ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic ophthalmologists have found commercially available Class 3A green laser pointers can cause visible harm to the eye's retina with exposures as short as 60 seconds. The ...

Being an airline pilot is a job of tremendous pressure. It goes without saying, then, that expertise and absolute concentration are paramount. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Aviation ...

On the night of October 17, 2015, as a passenger aircraft descended to an altitude of 300 meters on its way to land at Osaka International (Itami) Airport, a green light, believed to be a laser, was ...

PHOENIX — Laser pointer law breakers can be hard to catch and that might lead to an increase of incidents with aircrafts. Under Arizona law, it is a Class 1 misdemeanor to aim a laser pointer at an ...

Since we started looking at these records worldwide, there have been at least 137,000 reported incidents of pilots seeing lasers or having lasers aimed in their face. This is happening *** lot because ...

Reports of lasers illegally pointed at aircrafts in flight rose to a new high in 2023, the latest spike in a series of steady increases during the past decade. Laser strikes reported to the Federal ...