Reply #36: What are the chances of crashing? Let's run a test...

[Almost_there]

How about this... you drive along on the freeway at the speed limit, on a straight stretch. Take a laser and shine it right into your eye and see how long it takes you to recover. Before you finish counting, try jamming your airbag bag into the steering wheel, and explain to your insurance company why you just wrapped your car around a tree.

When something blindingly bright shines into your eyes, what's your initial reaction? Reach for your eyes, right? So, let's say the plane is on final approach, about 5 miles out, pilot with his hands on the controls and he gets hit in the eye. His natural reaction is to grab for his eyes, possibly putting the plane, now traveling very slowly and with much less room for error into a roll, dive, pull up, stall, take your pick, and in 10 seconds you've got 15 dead people.

So, are the chances high? No, but, they certainly exist. To simply pooh pooh this occurance is absurd. Perhaps we should also remember the putz actually ratted out his OWN DAUGHTER! He shouldn't be sent to Marion for 15 to life, but, I think a few months in the clink might make this moron realize A) You never, ever, ever lie to the FBI, and B) Shining lasers are aircraft (or cars, or throwing frozen turkeys out moving car windows) is just not a good idea.

So, the "what are the chances" theory is like saying "what are the chances people will ever go to the moon" in the 1800s, or something like that. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't. Plus, anyone that actually blames their own daughter when she didn't even do it!!! Loser should be beaten with a rubber hose or wet noodle something. Bad father! Bad father! Go to your room!

~Almost