The bird says the pilot got confused, went silent -
"and then he screamed."
Something to do with the nature of the target.
This mechanical assassination aircraft,
supposed to be very accurate
but sometimes
. . . "ruined pieces of a lot of humans,
especially small humans . . ."
The sands turned red,
he saw
"pieces of dead humans
hanging in trees . . ."
The stuff of nightmares -
only
it's not a dream.