Airliner pilots issued an alert after a laser beam was aimed at several planes above the Sydney's northwest on Monday night. It is feared people with laser lights could endanger aircraft by shining the lights into cockpits and temporarily blinding the pilots on approach into the airport, News Ltd reports.
The Federal Transport Department said it had identified up to 20 laser incidents across Australia, including one on a Royal Flying Doctor plane.
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Memo warns airport staff to be vigilant (MN)
March 12, 2007
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has circulated an internal memorandum to the airport's management staff asking all employees to remain vigilant to terrorist threats.
Written by Lt. Shawn Chamberlain of the airport's aviation security division, the memorandum dated Feb. 12 outlines reasons why the airport "may be at a greater risk than other metropolitan areas or airports in our region."
Chamberlain cited the airport's volume of traffic and travel, its location near the Mall of America and Veterans Administration buildings, its closeness to the Canadian border and its employment of fewer security officers than other airports its size.
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Army foils JI bomb attack in Maguindanao
March 13, 2007
Authorities believe they foiled a terror plot by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operatives with the discovery of an improvised powerful explosive device at a transport terminal in Maguindanao Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Julieto Ando, spokesman for the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said an unnamed civilian alerted police and soldiers of the presence of an unattended suspicious-looking box, which turned out to contain an 81-mm mortal shell rigged with a battery-operated blasting mechanism attached to a cellular phone.
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