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FAA to impose civil penalties for pointing lasers into cockpits
1 June 2011

FAA to impose civil penalties for pointing lasers into cockpits

1 June 2011

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that they will begin to impose civil penalties against people who point a laser into the cockpit of an aircraft. The FAA released a legal interpretation, which finds that directing a laser beam into an aircraft cockpit could interfere with a flight crew performing its duties while operating an [...]

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