Man jailed for Cardiff Airport plane laser attack
29.05.09
A 21-year-old man has been jailed for shining a laser light at a passenger plane preparing to land at Cardiff Airport. The pilot said the incident caused a ‘momentary loss of concentration’ due to a ‘dazzling green light’ as the plane approached the airport on a flight from Dublin.
Hossein Hosseiny, of Llanrumney, Cardiff, briefly shone a ‘dazzling green light’ into the cockpit of an aircraft carrying 52 people as it approached the airport on March 8. He pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to endangering the safety of an aircraft and supplying drugs and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court to a total of 10 months in jail.
The pilot immediately reported the incident to air traffic control and Mr Hosseiny, originally from Afghanistan, was arrested soon after in the nearby Porthkerry Park area of Barry. Prosecutor David Thomas told the court that, during a search, officers found him to be intoxicated with a friend in a car. Cannabis was also found in the vehicle which Mr Hosseiny later admitted supplying to his friend. During interview, the defendant told police he had taken to selling cannabis as a means of funding his own habit.
Judge Eleri Rees said: 'The consequences of your actions could have been catastrophic. Those who deliberately aim such pens into the cockpit of an aircraft or helicopter should expect a custodial sentence.’
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