I hate this, really do - but isn't this a double standard of some sort?
Sorry, but if people are stupid enough not to file a flight plan and fail to respond to a miltary challenge without good reason, then I'll invoke Darwin.
(Plus earlier Miko's about no ill will) A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion about Flight KAL007 - the Russians were branded mass murderers etc. This time the scale was somewhat smaller with just 5 people on board, unarmed floatplane Cessna was shot down in broad daylight.
"Donaldson said despite her husband's
protests on the radio, the plane was shot at with a machine gun.
She said that even after the plane landed on the Amazon River, the military plane continued to fire."