ALEPPO, Syria — A Russian pilot patrolling the skies over Syria claimed he had an "Aleppo moment" yesterday after he forget that he was supposed to bomb terrorists, and not the civilian targets directly below him.
The pilot, Capt. Sergei Petrov, apologized for the harmless gaffe soon after he dropped a number of bombs on a suburb of Aleppo that killed half-a-dozen women and children.
"Oh boy, I guess I just had an 'Aleppo moment' right there," Petrov told reporters. "It's so weird. My pre-mission flight brief emphasized that we were killing terrorists and that's who I thought I was wiping out."
