Lasers Pointed At 2 Flights Landing At Boston’s Logan Airport

The FAA said it is investigating after “two flight crews reported being illuminated by lasers last night over Boston”.

In the third incident involving a Newark-bound jet, reported at 11:35 p.m., United Flight 1933 from Houston had a laser trained on it for 3 seconds while flying about 7 miles southwest of the airport, Pentangelo said.

Pilots on four planes over New York and New Jersey report spotting lasers.

The FAA says the lasers hit the left and proper sides of the cockpits, together with the edges of the planes; lasers can distract and in addition briefly blind pilots, and pointing one at a aircraft is a federal crime, in accordance with Fox News.

“It should be taken seriously and it is being taken seriously and the FAA really focuses on this”, said R. John Hansman, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and aviation expert.

Former pilot and veteran crash investigator Dale Leppard questioned whether there is any coordination or link between the laser attacks, telling the Herald, “It certainly is a widespread issue”.

The three other recent incidents were reported by the FAA over New York airspace, two of them just west of Warwick, N.Y., a town just over the Sussex County border. “I don’t mean temporarily, I mean it can blind you for life”.