A reach around also MAY have caused the crash.
Avoiding a mid air with a condor MAY have caused the crash
MAY MAY MAY.
As for a flash, please! Take your hands off a 152 to rub your eyes, she'll fly more or less straight and level, also I've had laser strikes, all sorts of lights and commotion in the cabin, never gone into a death spiral because of it.
I don't need my tax dollars spent on assumptions, the NTSB is normally pretty good about sticking to the FACTS.
FACT START --- The pilot was not instrument current or night current, he had less then 20hrs in the clouds, and he did not even have a flight plan or clearance for flying in the clouds. He launched into the night with overcast clouds at a mere 300 above the ground, he lost control and crashed. --- FACTS END
Everything else is opinion and assumption, save the political driven assumptions for the talk shows.
Not like they found a "smoking gun" selfie.
....Also his flight path was text book spatial disorientation, steep turn to spiral.