http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6691826/

In September a pilot for Delta Air Lines reported an eye injury from a laser beam shone into the cockpit during a landing approach in Salt Lake City. The incident occurred about 5 miles from the airport. The plane landed safely.

FBI and other federal officials are investigating. It is not clear if a crime was committed or if the laser was directed into the cockpit by accident.

Steve Luckey, a retired airline pilot who is chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association’s national security committee, said pilots are concerned about a recent increase in laser incidents, but do not know what to make of them. He said he has learned of two or three cases in the past 90 days.

Right out of Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor, where Clark and Ding used hi-powered light beams to down Japanese AWACs planes on landing.

I almost wish Clancy would not be so openly imaginative. I wonder if the 9/11 hijackers got some inspiration from the Japanese pilot doing a kamikaze number on the Capitol buildling.

what about sharks with lazer beams?

seals and plovers?

friggin terrorists... they're so annoying:smash:

That's what I thought too. There has been too much #^&#^&#^&#^& that can be pulled out of Clancy that you wonder if what's left is what's next :( . Something to definitely keep an eye on the news for but might be a little harder than the fiction version?


Though sharks with lazerbeams was what I thought when I first posted this :hihi: