LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A 27-year-old California man was arrested after allegedly pointing a laser light into the cockpit of a commercial airliner and later into a police airplane that was searching for the offending light.
A commercial pilot told authorities a "powerful green laser light" was shined into the cockpit, causing temporary blindness, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The Lancaster Sheriff's Office sent up a fixed-wing airplane to search for the light only to have it shined on its pilots.