[Avodah] pikuach nefesh

[Eli Turkel]

<<RET wrote:

2. A pilot who is mistakenly firing on friendly troops. Can one shoot down
the plane

CM responds:

I think, that of all the cases listed, this is the easiest one to
differentiate. He is clearly a rodef, unlike all the other cases. If the
question was not about the pilot but about the others in the plane, the
argument (though less simple) can still be made that they are part of the
crew that make the rodef function.>>

However, R Elyashiv disagrees. He says that since the pilot thinks he is
killing the enemy and doing a mitzva he can't be considered a rodef.

An interesting question connected to Chaim's remarks concerns the 9-11
tragedy and especially the plane going to the Pentagon. Assuming the US
government had found out the plot could they have shot down the plane with
the innocent passengers to save the twin towers or the pentagon. Here
clearly the plane was a rodef but there are bystanders.

For the case of a terrorist holding captives R. Zilberstein left it as a
safek if one could kill the terrorist when others would also be killed


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Eli Turkel
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