Chugalog
You keep spouting off about airworthiness related fatal accidents.
I have knowledge of only one, the Seaking 7 crash.
I, and every single seaking pilot, will tell you that the HISLs did not cause or contribute to that accident, but you, and other non-pilots who frankly have no clue still use it to add to your statistics. That brings the rest into doubt for me.
We used to turn off the previous lights before HISLs were fitted because they also bounced distractingly off the water/clouds at low level.
It is in the very nature of light that it is bright and bounces off things.
What would you have them do?
Invent a light that does not light things up?
We are all trained to operate silent and dark anyway because in a real shooty war we would leave everything turned off fitted and airworthy or not!
It did not cause or contribute to that accident!!
You might as well say that an enormous 200ft thick bouncy shield would have stopped the fatalities so the aircraft was un-airworthy because they had not fitted it.
The 200ft bouncy shield does not exist and neither does the strobe which is not distracting at low level.