Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
I strongly question your last sentence's validity. ... They are/were ground minded people, not air minded people.
The "fire blindly into a known civilian airway" is the way you or I, who have a pilot's point of view, would look at it.
Fine, let's say that they fired blindly into the sky.
Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
I completely agree, however, with your general charge of carelessness, ...
I didn't use the word "carelessness", I said
... there was a callous and knowing disregard for the safety of civilians.
These guys took a very powerful weapon, aimed it at a target that they did not verify, that they knew that they could not verify and yet they pulled the trigger. Any combatant should know that they are obligated to ensure that they are not shooting at civilians. Positively identifying your target is one of the most basic tenets of firearms safety and it is one of the fundamental principles of war.
You can't dress this up as an accident or a blue-on-blue gone even worse. These guys went hunting for something that they could not positively identify and blazed away regardless.