The falling fighter crashes into a building and blows up smoke.
Shinji cowers defensively.
Gundampilotspaz: “Oops, sorry, kid.”
Kendrix: Again, another shot accentuating how he's stuck in a war-zone all of the sudden... Just look at just how tiny Shinji looks in this picture (it zooms out, making him even tinier), how the perspective doesn't really allow us to gauge the distance between Shinji and the BOOM and just how this is all generally beyond his ability to handle.