Cypriot police say pranksters are courting disaster by using powerful lasers at night to blind aircraft pilots over the island’s main airport of Larnaca.
Senior police officer Prodromos Prodromou said Wednesday the laser attacks have targeted the cockpits of low-flying aircraft on four separate occasions over the past 15 days. He says pranksters “don’t realize how catastrophic this can be.”

Prodromou said lasers were shone from different locations several kilometers east of the airport, hitting the cockpit window as the aircraft turned for its final approach.

The most recent incident involving a Greek Aegean Airlines plane occurred around midnight Tuesday.

Prodromou said the culprits could face life in prison on manslaughter charges if they cause an accident