OUT OF SIGHT

Airline pilots worldwide have reported more than 600 incidents involving an encounter with laser light beams. According to the Flight Safety Foundation's ``Human Factors&Aviation Medicine,'' these incidents feature a sudden impairment of vision to cockpit crewmembers, but long-term damage to the eye...

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