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In yesterday's news a light plane taking off from Sydney Airport carrying the Brisbane and Queensland mail, crashed into the sea shortly after take off. The mail service planes safety record is usually impecable and after reading another story last night I started to wonder.

Another plane landed safely in Newcastle after having a laser beam pointed in the window of the plane, temporarily blinding him. In the same article came other stories related by pilots of other incidents in NSW lately with the laser sights and being temporarily blinded while flying over various parts of NSW. 

So of course once again, the lasers are to be banned. Isn't it strange how these things happen. The general public finds good uses for these things that the Government doesn't like. All of a sudden there is scares from pilots being blinded and then a plane down. Will it get blamed on the lasers. Will the lasers be banned once again like all similar things are in our country. 

Instead of the people standing up and outcasting and ostracizing the people committing these crimes they are instead allowing their freedoms to be stripped slowly from them. 

Pilot Disorientated By Laser
Pilot Disorientated By Laser

 A pilot has been disorientated in a laser attack on a light plane flying over the New South Wales mid-north coast.

The pilot of the Cessna 152 was flying over Port Macquarie about 7:25pm (AEST) yesterday, when he saw a bright green beam through the wing tip of the plane.

The incident was the latest in a number of recent laser attacks that have prompted a NSW plan to ban laser pointers, bringing the state into line with Victoria and Western Australia.
Late last month, six planes had to change their flight paths into Sydney Airport after up to four people targeted them with laser beams. About a week later, a laser was shone into the window of a Virgin Blue plane travelling from Cairns as it was flying into Sydney.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of such attacks, with more than 300 incidents reported last year.