It is morally permissible to kill Nelson Mandela to save the lives of innocent orphans.

This debate is inspired by the forthcoming LD debate: "It is morally permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of more innocent people" but I don't know how to do LD debate (and I'm too lazy to learn) so please forgive my self-indulgence in pursuing a less formal interpretation of the topic. Picture the scene, if you will. It is a fine day in South Africa and Nelson Mandela is at the controls of his Ziviko Edge 540 single-seater stunt plane. All is well and he is heading home after performing a series of aerobatic manoeuvres when disaster strikes – the plane suddenly goes tech and he loses all mechanical control – the throttle, yoke, rudder and flaps are all jammed. "F*cking rats' c*cks," Mandela says to himself "that last knife-edge between the electricity pylons must have knackered the hydraulics". However, he notices that the avionics are still functioning so he tunes the VHF radio to 121.50 and issues a mayday call. He duly informs air traffic control of the problem and advises them the type of aircraft he is flying, his position, his heading, his altitude, his air speed and his fuel level. Please take it as given, by the way, that there is no way he can fix the mechanical problem in midair and there is no way to rescue the esteemed world statesman from the plane whilst it is in flight. Also, the plane is not equipped with a parachute. Now, after the air traffic controller has calculated the distance the aircraft will travel before running out of fuel and it's trajectory to the ground thereafter, he becomes seriously alarmed. That is because the plane is headed directly for an orphanage for children whose parents have died from AIDS. He knows that, unfortunately, the establishment has no phone and is two day's drive from the nearest settlement, so there will be no way to forewarn them of the impending disaster. However, there is still a ray of hope for Mandela. According to the satellite image of the orphanage that the air traffic controller got off the Internet, just before it hits, the aircraft will fly over the orphanage playground, which has several large bouncy castles in it, and he reckons that at that point the plane would be low enough to allow the former President to bail out and land on one of these inflatable buildings and thus escape with his life. However, moment's later, the plane would inevitably smash into the orphanage causing mass carnage. So, he has a dilemma. He can either allow the plane to carry on towards the orphanage and instruct Mandela to make a jump for it at the last moment, knowing that dozens of children would die seconds later, or he can call the air force and get them to scramble a fighter jet to shoot Nelson's plane out of the sky before it can do any damage, thus killing one of the twentieth century's most famous leaders. It's a tough one, isn't it? What would you do if you were the air traffic controller? Eventually I decided, if I were in his shoes, it would be morally wrong to order the firing of an air-to-air missile to blast Nelson's plane to smithereens in order to save some poor little orphans and would, instead, spare the Nobel Peace Prize winner's life. Therefore, I have chosen Con's position.