So it was when the bunch shone laser pen at police helicopter – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): An English police patrol that was headed to Birmingham for a monitoring mission was in summer exposed to powerful dazzling rays.

The source of light came from a block party in the neighborhood that the police passed in the air, one of the partygoers amused themselves with a powerful laser pen.

As a result of radiation lost pilot of the helicopter orientation ability and the crew were endangered.

In order to locate the source of the radiation took one of the policemen out a thermographic camera that they had with them as a tool in monitoring.

Played with the police

Special camera, which is able to pick up details of 609 feet, picked up the infrared radiation from the light source.

The 23-year-old man who aimed laser pen at helicopter while he laughed and drank scornful towards the helicopter with the other partygoers were identified by the camera that captured more than they had anticipated.

• See the detailed pictures of the party in the video above.

Got Arrested

The man has now been arrested for allegedly set police helicopter crew in danger.

During the trial that followed the arrest the young man was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment, in addition to having to carry out 250 hours unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay 4,000 dollars in compensation.

Cases disco ball effect

The pilot, Andy Shanks, who controlled helicopter tells him during his career in Birmingham have been exposed to similar radiation countless times.

– When light hits the trail , giving it a disco ball effect in the cabin, “he explained on the facebook page for West Midlands Police on October 20.

– This allows a lost sense of direction and concentration, it is right simply impossible to focus on the dashboard and is extremely dangerous because we lose control completely.

May impair sight
Shanks goes on that the radiation in the worst case can damage vision to pilot dramatically, if the beam direct contact with the retina.

– It happened to an observation officer in Ripley when he was hit with a laser while He looked through a telescope recently. Which led to severe damage to the retina of his.

Dazzled helicopter ambulance in Ålesund
In Norway has similar incident occurred when a helicopter ambulance to the hospital in Ålesund was struck by a laser beam and glare of the personnel on board in 2011.

– This is serious business we want a quick end to said operations manager Trygve Ødegård at Sunnmøre Police Dagbladet then.

Also in October 2008 announced several pilots that they were blinded by laser beams when they were going off and landing at Gardermoen.

NRPA has previously proposed an EU ban on the sale of like radiation equipment.