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ST. GEORGE — A St. George pilot is warning of the dangers of shining laser pointers at aircraft after an incident Monday night.
Danny Smith was flying his single-engine Cessna over the Bloomington Hills area about 9:45 p.m. when he saw a bright green laser light shining at his plane from a residential neighborhood below.
Smith said he and his friend Lucas Loe, who was a passenger, pulled out their cellphones to call 911 and take video footage to document the incident as they continued to fly overhead. In the video, the laser is shining directly at the airplane multiple times.
The two men aboard the plane can be heard discussing street names as they fly overhead while asking St. George Police dispatchers to arrange to have officers meet them at the location later.
