Speeches

Ruth Cadbury – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Cadbury on 2016-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many reports of lasers being shone into the cockpits of passenger aircraft landing or taking off from Heathrow Airport there have been in the last three years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The table below details the number of reports received by the Civil Aviation Authority of laser incidents targeted against aircraft landing or taking off from London Heathrow Airport.

Year

Number of reported incidents

2012

150

2013

144

2014

165

2015

95**

** A final analysis of laser occurrence reports received for the 2015 period will be available by the end of April 2016.