According to the Federal Aviation Administration, lasers say the lasers are at risk of pilots, passengers and all those on the top of a flight route, the laser indicated the plane in 2024.
The FAA 550 has received reports from its pilots over Arizona, a laser, with Arizona’s sixth as the most report-related incidents.
It was at the 2024 California summit, with 1,489 reports, 1,463, Florida with 810, 649 and 662 Illinois.
Across the country, about 13,000 laser beatings were reported by pilots in the United States, which decreased by 3 percent last year, but the FAA said it was still very high.
The figure also dropped in Arizona, but only slightly, with 558 Laser accidents reported by pilots in
The Phoenix Sky Harber International Airport, the busiest airport in its state, transports hundreds of flights to the Phonex daily, with about 5 million people.
“The lasers can deprive the pilots, most of whom are flying with hundreds of passengers,” the FAA said in a statement.
Since the 2010 FAA began investigating Laser incidents, 328 pilots were injured in a laser beating. A laser pilots often suffer from vision disorders, including eye shine, the last image, or a blind location.
FAAs said people who shine on aircraft face FAFA fines of $11,000 for each violator for $30,800 for several Laser incidents, and violators can face federal criminal punishments, fined up to five years in prison, $250,000, as well as state and domestic sanctions.
In 2019, a man from Mesa was arrested on charges of targeting a laser in a Mesa police helicopter.
In 2016, a man was arrested and charged with referring to laser on several planes at different Valley airports, including Sky Harber.
The agency has asked pilots to report Laser incidents for an online website.
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This article initially appeared in the Republic of Arizona: Here, the FAA says Arizona is in the ranking of Laser events for pilots.