{"id":632376,"date":"2024-02-01T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=632376"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:42:19","slug":"laser-strikes-against-aircrafts-have-surged-to-new-record-says-faa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/laser-strikes-against-aircrafts-have-surged-to-new-record-says-faa\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser strikes against aircrafts have surged to new record, says FAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laser strikes aimed at aircraft including airline planes surged 41% last year to a record high, according to federal officials. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it received 13,304 reports from pilots about laser strikes last year, erasing a record set in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious safety hazard that puts everyone on the plane and on the ground at risk,\u201d FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said in a video posted by the agency. <\/p>\n<p>The FAA said pilots have reported 313 injuries since the agency started keeping records in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser strikes aimed at aircraft including airline planes surged 41% last year to a record high, according to federal officials. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it received 13,304 reports from pilots about laser strikes last year, erasing a record set in 2021. \u201cAiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious safety hazard that puts everyone on the plane and on the ground at risk,\u201d FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said in a video posted by the agency. The FAA said pilots have reported 313 injuries since the agency started keeping records in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}