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Pilots Report Seeing Laser Lights While Flying
clickondetroit ^ | February 14, 2006 | WDIV

Posted on 02/14/2006 12:39:13 PM PST by Westlander

Police are on alert after more than a dozen pilots reported someone shining a laser light at the plane while descending into Metro Airport.

The incident occurred in the Dearborn and Dearborn Heights areas, where 16 pilots reported seeing the laser pointer lights near the tower at Metro Airport, Local 4 reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; dearborn; detroit; landing; laser; laserlights; lasers; pilots
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Kids playing around or ?
1 posted on 02/14/2006 12:39:16 PM PST by Westlander
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To: Westlander

Perhaps...although given the population of Dearborn...?


2 posted on 02/14/2006 12:40:28 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Westlander

Care to guess what the dominant immigrant population in Dearborn, MI is?


3 posted on 02/14/2006 12:40:46 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

dearborn is 33% towel head and also 33% moon worsippers - - go figure.


4 posted on 02/14/2006 12:42:00 PM PST by RolandBurnam (I WANT SOME PORK RINDS!!!!!)
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To: Westlander

Dearborn as in Deaborn MI, with the huge Arab-Muslim population also known by by some as Little Beirut?


5 posted on 02/14/2006 12:42:05 PM PST by TeddyCon
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To: TeddyCon

Check Conyers.


6 posted on 02/14/2006 12:43:13 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Westlander

This hasn't been the first time lasers have been reported.


7 posted on 02/14/2006 12:43:19 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Westlander
Quick! Someone ping Art Bell.
8 posted on 02/14/2006 12:43:50 PM PST by jecIIny (You faithful, let us pray for the Catechumens! Lord Have Mercy)
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To: Westlander

Two white guys.


9 posted on 02/14/2006 12:44:11 PM PST by txhurl (I need a pair of floppy white ears)
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To: Westlander

Towel head ally.


10 posted on 02/14/2006 12:44:51 PM PST by boomop1
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To: TeddyCon

Take a drive down West Warren some time...


11 posted on 02/14/2006 12:46:12 PM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: RolandBurnam

Moon worshippers?

What do you mean? New Age types?


12 posted on 02/14/2006 12:48:10 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Westlander

Aren't there a lot of Muslims in that area?


13 posted on 02/14/2006 12:49:23 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: Westlander

Can someone please explain to worst case scenario of these anecdotal reports.


15 posted on 02/14/2006 12:50:01 PM PST by montag813
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To: Westlander

Something bad is going to happen over there eventually I just know it. I think about it every month while I sit on middlebelt road waiting for my wife. It would be too easy if someone got their hands on a surface to air missile.

Too many overgrown empty lots, low flying aircraft and islamderthals.


16 posted on 02/14/2006 12:50:31 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Westlander

Maybe it was aliens. Who knows what those Canadians are capable of?


17 posted on 02/14/2006 12:50:41 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: montag813
Can someone please explain to worst case scenario of these anecdotal reports.

I'm no expert...
but news reports have said that a well-aimed laser of adequate
power could blind pilot(s) and put a real crimp in flying.

The real worst case scenario is that we'll find out these were
just training runs for some type of laser-guided weapon to bring down
an airliner.

I hope it's just some radical Islamics that are playing it safe
but getting a buzz over "yanking the chain" of the Great Satan.
This would not shock me; soon after the London bombings, I read
that the LAPD bomb squads got quite a few "spoof" on mass transit.
These could just be "testing the defense" and/or hoping to get
arrested for strange, yet innocuous activity...then trot out the
representatives from CAIR, ACLU and Al Gore's office to tell the
world how Innocent Islamics are being persecuted here in the USA.
18 posted on 02/14/2006 12:56:42 PM PST by VOA
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Maybe it was aliens. Who knows what those Canadians are capable of?

LOL! Maybe with the election results in Canada for the conservatives...
they think of the USA as the safe haven!
19 posted on 02/14/2006 12:57:56 PM PST by VOA
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To: MplsSteve

Allah is the moon god.


20 posted on 02/14/2006 12:58:57 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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