ActionScript 3 paste image from clipboard

Is it possible to paste image from clipboard using ActionScript 3 and Flash Player 11?
Need web solution only, not AIR.
Use case:
- User opens image some in some native image editor.
- Selects part of image and clicks Ctrl+C (Command+C on Mac). Now part of image is in clipboard.
- User open web application that is running in Flash Player
- User inputs image by clicking Ctrl+V (Command+V on Mac) or using context Menu->Paste.
I browsed the docs for Clipboard at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/Clipboard .html
The only format that seems reasonable would be Clipboard.getData(BITMAP_FORMAT) on paste events. This seems to be supported by AIR only.
Are there any ways to implement the given use case with Flash Player?
Thanks!
P.S.: There is some support of paste events in HTML in Chrome and Firefox, but Internet Explorer 10 and Apple Saffari 6 seems still have issues with pure-HTML approach.
Cheers,
Ignat.

This seems to be supported by AIR only.
What gives you the impression?
AIR-only functions are marked with a fancy AIR logo
(like the first one in this list: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/images/sprite-index.png )
and getData doesn`t have it, so it should work without problems in the "normal" Flash Player if you follow the recepy:
Note for Flash Player applications: In Flash Player 10, a paste operation from the clipboard first requires a user event (such as a keyboard shortcut for the Paste command or a mouse click on the Paste command in a context menu). Clipboard.getData() will return the contents of the clipboard only if the InteractiveObject has received and is acting on a paste event. Calling Clipboard.getData() under any other circumstances will be unsuccessful.

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