30-Aug-2010Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10241/1083560-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml
The FAA was notified after lasers were pointed at two STAT MedEvac that were flying north of the city... Read more
23-Aug-2010Source: Ottawa Citizen
A Sikorsky S76 helicopter belonging to the Ornge transport medicine service was targeted as it was on a flight to the Ottawa Hospital.... Read more
18-Aug-2010Source: Calgary Herald
The incident happened late Monday night, as the helicopter flew over the city’s northeast. At about 10:45 p.m., someone projected a bright green beam into the chopper’s cockpit, prompting the pilot to take evasive action.... Read more
16-Aug-2010Source: BBC
The laser was directed at the cockpit of Cheshire Constabulary’s aircraft as it flew over Winsford on Wednesday night, police said.... Read more
29-Jul-2010Source: BBC
A man has been cautioned by police after admitting shining a laser beam at the Thames Valley Police EC135 helicopter.... Read more
24-Jul-2010Source: Chicago Tribune
Police have arrested an 18-year-old southern Indiana man accused of aiming a laser pointer at an Indiana State Police helicopter.... Read more
22-Jul-2010Source: Washington Post
Michael E. Promisel, 18, was charged after officers on the ground were called to search for the source of the laser allegedly aimed at the helicopter as it passed over Mantua Elementary School on Horner Court shortly before midnight July 15, police said.... Read more
7-Jul-2010Source: NBC Washington
A grand jury is expected to decide whether Raymond Jeffrey Poli should stand trial.... Read more
6-Jul-2010Source: Gazette Live
A man who shone a high-powered lamp at a police helicopter could face prison. Michael Kevin Renney was accused of twice shining the light into the skies, hitting the cockpit of the Cleveland Police aircraft.... Read more
30-Jun-2010Source: IOL
A Durban man has been arrested for shining a laser light at a helicopter, blinding the pilot while he was patrolling the beach on Saturday.... Read more
30-Jun-2010Source: Belfast Telegraph
A man who admitted shining a laser pen into the eyes of a police helicopter pilot 2,000 ft over Derry forcing him to take evasive action has been put on probabtion for 18 months... Read more
29-Jun-2010Source: Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
The 16-year-old, from Cheltenham, was arrested in Crabtree Place at 2.45am on Tuesday on suspicion of shining a light at an aircraft so as to dazzle or distract a pilot. He was given a formal reprimand after admitting the offence.... Read more
28-Jun-2010Source: Daily Record
Police leaders reacted with fury yesterday after a teenager who aimed a laser pen at a police helicopter escaped with a £500 fine. Call centre worker Anthony Boyle, 19, had been warned he faced jail for the potentially lethal stunt.... Read more
25-Jun-2010Source: San Bernardino Sun
Martin Anthony Perez, 18, was arrested May 8 after police say he shined a laser at a Fontana police helicopter in the area of Alder and San Bernardino avenues.... Read more
25-Jun-2010Source: Vancouver Sun
Alvin Vargas Bautista had testified during the trial that he was trying to fix his young son’s toy laser while waiting for his wife outside a friend’s apartment building near Millbourne Mall.... Read more
3-Jun-2010Source: HeliHub.com
A Dutch Bell 412 rescue helicopter was targeted on Tuesday evening by a laser pen. This follows a smiilar incident a week earlier. The Royal Military Police is investigating into both incidents. The crew of the Search and Rescue helicopter conducted a training flight over Leeuwarden when the helicopter shone a laser pen.... Read more
19-May-2010Source: Ventura County Star
A Glenn County man is facing up to 20 years in prison for interfering with an aircraft by shining a powerful laser at a California Highway Patrol helicopter.... Read more
14-May-2010Source: Northern Echo
The crew were able to pinpointed the source of the laser and guided a ground unit to an address in Easington Lane, where a 17-year-old male was arrested.... Read more
12-May-2010Source: San Bernardino Sun
While circling the area, the pilot and an observer were struck by a laser beam. The observer directed officers on the ground to the person who aimed the laser. Perez told police his friend purchased the laser on the internet.... Read more
7-May-2010Source: Guardian
The 14-year-old distracted a Sea King crew searching for a missing kayaker off the river Tees estuary by sweeping the sky in front of them with a narrow beam of green light... Read more
7-May-2010Source: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/B5D56CE3E26E4F15862577140006795A?OpenDocument
A St. Charles County man was arrested Tuesday night after he pointed a green laser light at a police helicopter in flight, police said. Authorities arrested the man, 24, on suspicion of interfering with an aircraft... Read more
4-May-2010Source: Nercury News
The helicopter was helping on a robbery search in the south Sacramento area on Friday night when witnesses reported seeing people on the roof of a middle school.... Read more
15-Apr-2010Source: Philadelphia Enquirer
New Jersey Air National Guard helicopter pilots have helped Camden police with day and nighttime patrols for the last eight months or so on a “routine basis,” Police Chief Scott Thomson said Tuesday night.... Read more
15-Apr-2010Source: WDBO
A Winter Park owner of a security company is facing a list of charges after allegedly shining a laser into the cockpit of an Orange County Sheriff’s helicopter.... Read more
25-Mar-2010Source: UPI
Phoenix police arrested a teenager for allegedly pointing a laser beam at a police helicopter, authorities said. The 14-year-old boy apparently admitted involvement after being arrested.... Read more
23-Mar-2010Source: HeilHub.com
British JetRanger owner Joel Tobias regularly blogs about flying his JetRanger, and it’s great to read stories written by such an enthusiastic private pilot. However, as he leads his readers through night training exercises, a sense of alarm was raised in a recent missive:- “there were no emergencies, but we did become involved in a... Read more
29-Jan-2010Source: Boston Globe
A 51-year-old Medford man has been convicted of shining a green laser beam into a Massachusetts State Police helicopter... Read more
27-Jan-2010Source: News 10 ABC
Placer County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Art Campos said Jamie Allen Downie, 35, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of discharging a laser at an aircraft.... Read more
9-Dec-2009Source: KPHO
The Arizona Department Of Public Safety arrested a man who it said pointed a handheld laser at a police helicopter involved in a robbery pursuit.... Read more
29-Nov-2009Source: Daily Gazette
Reckless yobs are putting lives at risk by shining laser pens at the police helicopter. Essex Police revealed the lights were shone into pilots’ eyes 15 times so far this year, an increase from seven in 2008.... Read more
5-Nov-2009Source: Yorkshire Post
A MECHANIC who shone a laser pen at a police helicopter at night has been jailed for four months. Allan Ponsonby told Leeds Crown Court yesterday he felt the West Yorkshire Police helicopter had been harassing him and following him for months and had pointed the laser to show a customer at his garage where... Read more
27-Oct-2009Source: BBC
A teenager who endangered the lives of a police helicopter crew by shining a laser pen at the aircraft has apologised in person to them.... Read more
14-Oct-2009Source: 10TV
Columbus police pilot Lt. Mike Elkins said his unit has gone years without a laser targeting one of its choppers, but last night was the third time it has happened in less than a month,... Read more
28-Sep-2009Source: Boston Globe
Pilots flying over Massachusetts reported seeing laser beams flashed in their direction eight times during 2008, with the rays hitting everything from commercial airliners landing at Logan International Airport to a State Police helicopter to the blimp floating over a Red Sox playoff game, according to a review of FAA data.... Read more
9-Sep-2009Source: CBS13
Balltazar Valladares, 30, pleaded guilty in June to shining a high-powered green laser at a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department helicopter on March 16, 2009. The helicopter was searching for a suspect who had shined a green laser at a Southwest Airlines flight that was landing at the Sacramento International Airport two hours earlier.... Read more
27-Aug-2009Source: Get Surrey
A WOMAN who shone a laser pen into the cockpit of the Surrey Police helicopter as it flew 1,000ft in the air above Staines has been handed a six-month suspended jail sentence. The court heard that the police helicopter was responding to a call-out in the Staines area just before midnight on August 10 when... Read more
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