{"id":25691,"date":"2021-04-09T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=25691"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:00:14","slug":"fbi-offers-reward-for-information-on-suspect-who-pointed-laser-at-air-force-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=25691","title":{"rendered":"FBI offers reward for information on suspect who pointed laser at Air Force plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The FBI, in coordination with the United States Air Force, is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspect responsible for a what the agency calls a laser strike on an aircraft approaching the Savannah Air National Guard Base on March 9, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the FBI, at 9:50 p.m., a United States Air Force aircraft was deliberately struck by a high-powered laser for about one minute. The laser caused temporary eye damage to a member of the flight crew and put the entire crew at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators believe the laser originated from an area northeast of Vidalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When aimed at an aircraft, a beam of light from a laser can travel more than a mile and illuminate a cockpit, disorienting and temporarily blinding pilots. Its is a serious matter and a federal felony to knowingly point the beam of a laser at an aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information about the laser strike on March 9, 2021, is asked to contact FBI Atlanta at 770-216-3000 or go to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tips.fbi.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">tips.fbi.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI, in coordination with the United States Air Force, is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspect responsible for a what the agency calls a laser strike on an aircraft approaching the Savannah Air National Guard Base on March 9, 2021. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9527,9486,8473,8474,9467],"class_list":["post-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-fbi","tag-latest","tag-media","tag-sun","tag-vidalia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}