Chennai: Airport police have detained two supervisors of a hotel construction site at Guindy on the suspicion that they were flashing green laser beams at aircraft landing at the airport. They have seized a few laser pens from the supervisors. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) southern region office had recently filed a police complaint after a few pilots reported that green lights were being flashed at aircrafts approaching to land at the airport. The lights were distracting the pilots.
Following a tip-off that lasers lights were used at construction sites, suburban police searched several construction sites near the airport on Friday. "We detained two supervisors from a hotel construction site located behind the Dr MGR Tamil Nadu Medical University and questioned them," a senior police officer told The Times of India.
The police found that most of the employees used similar lights at the construction site. "They use the laser beam as a communication tool at the site. The laser beams are pointed at colleagues to call them over instead of using phones or walkie talkies," an official said.
The police said the laser pens that were seized from the construction employees could generate a light beam that can travel up to 1.5 km.
26/06/11 Times of India
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