@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... there's actually a rational - albeit utterly fucking incompetent - reason they would be doing this, and it's not to kill the pilot.
They have, as a point of fact, taken fire from forces they failed to see or were unable to see or detect. So they're not targeting the pilot.
Most likely they're targeting forces that may or may not exist which may or may not shoot at the aircraft searching, in order to hopefully secure the search area.