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Laser pointers can scatter light inside a plane’s cockpit and temporarily blind pilots, putting everyone on board in danger.
More so than we thought.
This time, over Long Island.
He reportedly has a history of drug addiction and suffers from bipolar disorder.
The suspect's housemate and brother-in-law says he is the responsible party.
Egan was arrested and charged with assault on a police officer, felony assault, menacing a police officer, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon.
A Long Island man has been busted for allegedly shining a laser pointer into the cockpit of an airplane flying over the town of Shirley in August of last year.
"Some people are using this technology recklessly," the Senior Democrat from New York said Sunday. "Some who have far more evil intent may decide to use them as well."
Lasers are capable of lighting up the entire cockpit of a plane from miles away, and one JetBlue pilot describes being hit with one as "a blinding agent. You are temporarily disoriented."