I will no longer believe any stories of lasers causing airplane crashes after watching the Egyptian footage of helicopters circling the crowds. Those helicopters looked like they were painted green and red from all the hundreds of lasers on them, and the pilots cruised around without a care.
LOL good point. The choppers looked like they were lit up with strobe lights.
Saw that. Wondered what the pilots thought about it.
It would depend on the power of the laser and the beam width at the plane.
The lasers seen in Egypt are little low power laser pointers with beam width of a few inches at a distance.
A high power laser with a wide beam width at target distance. As in wide enough to cover the entire cockpit window. Then the pilots are not going to see crap, no mater how hard they try and squint their eyes.