He was six miles from the threshhold, not six miles from the laser. And a green laser can easily hit an aircraft at 3000 feet. Here's a video of one burning a hole (!) in a plastic cup from four feet away.
"Here's a video of one burning a hole (!) in a plastic cup from four feet away."
What is shown in your video is not a laser pointer. The laser shown in your flick is a multi-watt laser. Instead of 100 bucks, try a couple thousand.
You're about the umpteenth person that has posted that back to me. I understand the the plane was six miles out from the runway. Regardless, unless the laser was directly under the plane, the least distance the laser was from the plane was 3000 ft. If the laser was 3 miles from the runway (also three miles from the plane) or nine miles from the runway (still three miles from the plane), that puts the distance between the plane and the laser at considerably more than 3000 ft.