There has been another incident of someone pointing a laser at an aircraft in Calgary.
Early Friday morning Calgary City Police received a call that an incoming airplane was being targeted by a green laser pointer.
Initial reports suggested that the laser was coming from the McKenzie Towne or Douglasdale area in southeast Calgary.
The HAWCS police helicopter was up looking for the culprit, but couldn’t find anyone.
Transport Canada keeps track of these types of incidents and reports that there were 461 laser/aircraft contacts in 2013 and 357 in 2012.
Police in Richmond, B.C. are investigating after three flights arriving and departing from the Vancouver airport were hit by lasers on September 22nd.
Richmond RCMP said all three cases happened at the Vancouver International Airport.
The next day, in Ottawa, two WestJet pilots had to get medical treatment after a laser was fired directly into their eyes during a landing.
The light from the lasers is potentially blinding for pilots and it is illegal to point them at airplanes.
Under the Aeronautics Act, someone convicted of pointing a laser into an aircraft cockpit in Canada could face up to five years in prison and face fines up to $100,000.
