Pilots have welcomed moves to ban the importation of laser pointers, after another serious incident where lasers were shone at a flight on approach to Sydney Airport.
Aircraft were forced to divert approaches because of a coordinated, 15 minute attack involving four powerful green lasers last Friday.
The Australian and International Pilots Association says it has been talking to the government about a ban on importation of the lasers, with exemptions for legitimate use.
“I am pleased to say that they (the government) are moving to do that,” the association’s general manager Peter Somerville told ABC radio.
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