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United States: record number of laser attacks on aircraft

About 9,700 reports collected by the FAA in 2021. Never so many before

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that in 2021 it received 9,723 reports from aircraft pilots who were the victims of attacks using laser instruments from the ground. The authority said the number of these recorded dangerous actions exceeded all previous records, with +41% over 2020.US civil aviation regulators have developed a web-based visualisation tool that allows all details...

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