He did it because of the dope, doncha know. He was high, that’s all, and just having some fun by trying to bring down an airplane. What’s the big deal? I mean, who ever heard of a Muslim trying to crash an airplane as part of his jihad?
“Man jailed for shining laser at landing plane,” from the Belfast Telegraph, May 28 (thanks to Twostellas):
A man was jailed today for shining a laser at a passenger plane preparing to land.
Hossein Hosseiny briefly illuminated the cockpit of the Dublin to Cardiff aircraft which was carrying 52 people on board on the evening of March 8.
The pilot said the actions of the 21-year-old father-to-be from the Countisbury Avenue area of Llanrumney, Cardiff, caused a “momentary loss of concentration” during his approach to the runway due to a “dazzling green light”.
The incident was reported immediately by the pilot to air traffic control and Hosseiny, a failed asylum seeker from Afghanistan, was arrested soon after in the nearby Porthkerry Park area of Barry.
Prosecutor David Thomas told Cardiff Crown Court that, during a search, officers found Hosseiny in a car intoxicated with a friend. Cannabis was also found in the vehicle which Hosseiny later admitted supplying to his friend.
In interview, the defendant told the police he had taken to selling cannabis as a means of funding his own habit.
At a previous court hearing, Hosseiny pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of an aircraft and supplying drugs….