The dilemma

The jet will reach the city's edge within the hour, and its tanks are running low. Your officers are split. One says fire now, while there is open country below. Another says you cannot kill people who might still wake. Everyone in the room is waiting for your word. What do you do?

Your options

1. Treat the ground as what matters. Ready the shot, so that if the jet nears the city it comes down where no one lives.
2. Refuse to make killing them your first move. You will not deliberately end innocent lives while any other path still exists.
3. Hold off and keep working it. Have the fighters close in, look for any sign of life, and try every channel to wake the cockpit before anyone talks about firing.