In Cyprus airport pilots blind laser.

Unknown attackers for two weeks of high-power lasers blind pilots who sit in the Cypriot city of Larnaca airport, located on the south-east of the island. As reported by Sky News television, citing local police, over the past 15 days, four such cases. The last one was recorded at night on Tuesday, 7 April: if the aim of hooligans began Greek airline flight Greek Aegean Airlines.
It is noted that lasers include at night and send them into the cockpit. The police believe that it makes some "jokers", do not understand what could cause catastrophic consequences of their actions.
As has been able to establish in the course of the investigation, lasers are from different locations at a distance of several kilometers to the east of the airport.
Sky News said that in 2008 a similar incident occurred in one of Australia's airports. Since then, authorities have imposed a ban on the use of laser ukazok.
Remember that a lot of cases where pilots blind lasers, have been recorded in the United States. In particular, in April 2007, sent a laser into the unknown cab two Coast Guard, who sat on the airfield in Hawaii. In September 2004, the pilot of the aircraft, sadivshegosya in Salt Lake City, was in a similar situation, the eye injury.
Interestingly, that earlier in 2004, the Pentagon announced its plans to use lasers for emitting signals to pilots of aircraft involved in the exclusion zones. At the same time, it was reported that only six months in the United States was recorded about a hundred cases of diversion of laser rays in the cockpit.