Continuing the discussion from The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1) - #10002 by Johnny_L.A.
Previous discussions:
Here’s the post that closed the thread.
An F/A-18 out of MCAS Miramar crashed at Rimrock Lake, WA (about 85 miles SE of Seattle, according to Google Earth). The pilot ejected.
This thread has aged well.
Haven’t we all? 
The carrier I used to work for had the papal contract for flights to, from, and in the USA the many years.
They were always charters. And a huge deal, where half of first class would be removed to put in a temporary bedroom. And he had quite an entourage of security, medical staff, and all the rest.
We’d supply 2 customized jets, one to use and one as spare. Each with a full crew. All of whom were volunteers and were Catholic.
It was a Big Deal.
A bunch of skydivers dove a little harder than planned.
The New Haven Register reported on a laser that was pointed at an airplane cockpit.
Federal aviation officials are investigating after someone shined a green laser into the cockpit of an airplane flying over Franklin and Norwich Thursday night.
A Delta flight from Dallas to Boston was beginning its final descent around 9:15pm when, while still at a cruising altitude of 20,000 feet, the laser was flashed into the cockpit, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Authority confirmed.
Can I even see an airplane at 20,000 feet from the ground? And wouldn’t the beam from a typical laser pointer be really broad at that range?