Air Traffic Control: Lasers
(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of laser pen attacks on air traffic control towers have been recorded in the last five years.
This question was answered on 27th January 2016
In the last five years from the period 1 July 2009 to 31 July 2015, the Civil Aviation Authority recorded 17 reports of laser pen attacks affecting air traffic towers in the UK.