{"id":2542,"date":"2015-07-16T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/iridian\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:44:41","slug":"rash-of-laser-pointer-incidents-prompts-new-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iridian.jp\/en\/news\/industry-news\/rash-of-laser-pointer-incidents-prompts-new-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rash of laser pointer incidents prompts new warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2543\" src=\"https:\/\/iridian.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CTV_News.png\" alt=\"CTV_News\" width=\"200\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new spat of laser pointer attacks on airplanes has prompted a reminder from Transport Canada that shining bright lights at aircrafts is both dangerous and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Over a 90-minute span [on the\u00a0night of July 15th], 12 pilots, including one flying for Toronto\u2019s Porter Airlines, reported being hit by lasers as they flew over New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Though no injuries were reported, the American Federal Aviation Administration said the event wasn\u2019t isolated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[nice-button link=&#8221;http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/rash-of-laser-pointer-incidents-involving-planes-in-u-s-prompts-new-warnings-1.2473427&#8243; newwindow=&#8221;yes&#8221;] See the CTV News clip.[\/nice-button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new spat of laser pointer attacks on airplanes has prompted a reminder from Transport Canada that shining bright lights at aircrafts is both dangerous and illegal. Over a 90-minute span [on the\u00a0night of July 15th], 12 pilots, including one flying for Toronto\u2019s Porter Airlines, reported being hit by lasers as they flew over New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.7 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rash of laser pointer incidents prompts new warnings - Iridian Spectral Technologies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/iridian.jp\/en\/news\/industry-news\/rash-of-laser-pointer-incidents-prompts-new-warnings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rash of laser pointer incidents prompts new warnings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new spat of laser pointer attacks on airplanes has prompted a reminder from Transport Canada that shining bright lights at aircrafts is both dangerous and illegal. 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