Laser devices pose growing risk for pilots in Tucson,
nationwide
TUCSON - Hundreds of pilots from law enforcement
agencies around the state gathered for the largest safety seminar in Arizona
focusing on laser beam incidents.
FBI Special Agent Brian Nowak said that
there were an estimated 4,000 incidents of lasers beamed into the cockpits of
aircraft have occurred nationwide this year.
In Tucson, a laser is
pointed at an aircraft between one and four times a week.
Tucson Police
Pilot Chris Potter tracks every time the police department's air unit has had a
run in with a laser.
"Last year we have close to 50 incidents," Potter
said.
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