Why a searchlight rarely blinded a fast aircraft into crashing

Could a searchlight blind a pilot and make an aircraft crash?

Only perhaps against a slow aircraft; fast Second World War aeroplanes were too difficult to track and dazzle reliably.

The proposed effect was possible in principle but hard to achieve against a moving aircraft. A searchlight had to find the target, track it, and keep the beam on the pilot's line of sight. The idea might work against a slow aeroplane. By the Second World War, however, aircraft speed made continuous tracking and deliberate dazzling much less practical. Searchlights remained useful for locating targets and supporting anti-aircraft fire even when blinding the pilot was unlikely.