Twelve different flight crews reported that someone was shining a laser into their cockpits as the aircraft were making their final approach Sunday evening at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
When I was working at IWA as a CFII I got lased with a green laser 3 times over a year’s period. The first one happened and I got onto tower freq and advised them and I gave them the best location I could. I was off the next day, but the next day I came back and they said an FBI agent came to see me and handed me his card.
The second time, I got on PHX approach and they advised me to go to a seperate freq to tell them what’s going on. They tlod me I wasn’t the first case that night.
Thats not stuff to play around with. It makes us angry
Port of Seattle police have arrested a 24-year-old Burien man in connection with the recent pointings of a laser beam at planes approaching Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The man, who was not identified, was taken into custody at 4 p.m. Friday, the Port said in a news release Saturday night. He was booked into the King County Jail, with bail set at $100,000, and held on suspicion of unlawful discharge of a laser, a felony.