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4. Thank you!! I am just trying to understand this.

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:46 PM

Oct 2015

It makes no sense to me so I want to believe I am missing information.

In any case, based on what I know today, I think it is kind of tough on the pilot, if they had no way to know that the building was a hospital. If someone was supposed to communicate to the pilot and call off the attack and that person did not, then it's on them - but the pilot has to bear this on his soul forever anyway.

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