Patriot Act used to quell laser pointer terror. Don't look now [The Register]
Obviously, the author of this article isn't a pilot. Who cares what law was being used to prosecute someone stupid enough to shine a powerful laser on a plane at night. If you are VFR or IFR and you lose your ability to see either the instruments or your ground reference, you can become disoriented very quickly. Spatial disorientation, close to the ground, usually has fatal results for everyone on board. If you are a passenger, you just have to hope the auto pilot is engaged.
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