EMB ERJ 140 ER/LR
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General Police / Security Involved
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
On initial approach into MMTC; descending; inbound we began to receive numerous laser strike attempts from a high-powered green laser. While a number of them very briefly struck the front windows of the aircraft; none resulted in any loss of pilot capacities for either crew. As they continued; I decided to breach sterile cockpit protocol and video-record the events; since this has happened at this airport before; and as far as I can tell; from the same location; about 5 miles NW of the airport. My hope is that any analysis of the video may help track down this culprit; and that was my justification for not following sterile cockpit in that moment. We did also report the strikes and their approximate location to the Tower; and they advised they would pass on the reports to the airport Commandant. This was the second night in a row we received laser strike attempts while on approach into a Mexican city. The previous night was Aguascalientes.The irony is that; below 10;000 feet; we all turn on our lights to be better seen. Should we now start to consider turning off at least the recog/landing lights that mark our location so brightly if we find ourselves being attacked?
EMB-140 Captain reported being targeted by a laser on approach to MMTC.