B737 first officer reported a laser encounter during approach to lax. His vision was not affected; b...

Attributes
ACN	1398227
Time
Date	201610
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	LAX.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 195 Flight Crew Type 2764
Events
Anomaly	Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

While hand flying the ILS 25L approaching in visual conditions my eye was drawn to something on the ground. It was right off the nose; just slightly right of center line. The aircraft was about 16 DME and at about 5;000 feet. I looked at it and immediately recognized the green light as a laser and ducked under the glare shield. I looked at for only a split second and at the time felt as though my vision was not affected. Captain asked if I wanted to transfer controls; I declined. Upon landing I felt a slight burning sensation in my right eye; but no degraded vision. Parked at gate went home and went right to bed about midnight local time. Upon waking this morning; I still have a slight burning sensation in my right eye and I had a little bit of white discharge in the right eye. Now 14 hours after the event symptoms are still the same; slight burning but no apparent effect on my vision. My next flight assignment is 10 days from now and I will monitor this and if need be I will go see an eye doctor; but as of this time my vision seems unaffected.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 First Officer reported a laser encounter during approach to LAX. His vision was not affected; but other symptoms in the eye persisted post flight.

Narrative: While hand flying the ILS 25L approaching in visual conditions my eye was drawn to something on the ground. It was right off the nose; just slightly right of center line. The aircraft was about 16 DME and at about 5;000 feet. I looked at it and immediately recognized the green light as a laser and ducked under the glare shield. I looked at for only a split second and at the time felt as though my vision was not affected. Captain asked if I wanted to transfer controls; I declined. Upon landing I felt a slight burning sensation in my right eye; but no degraded vision. Parked at gate went home and went right to bed about midnight local time. Upon waking this morning; I still have a slight burning sensation in my right eye and I had a little bit of white discharge in the right eye. Now 14 hours after the event symptoms are still the same; slight burning but no apparent effect on my vision. My next flight assignment is 10 days from now and I will monitor this and if need be I will go see an eye doctor; but as of this time my vision seems unaffected.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

B737 first officer reported a laser encounter during approach to lax. His vision was not affected; but other symptoms in the eye persisted post flight.