Originally Posted by
dr dre
That wouldn't do much good. Iranair 655 was monitoring guard, weren't they?
Maybe it should be the responsibility of armed forces to not "misidentify" aircraft in areas with high civilian traffic?
Indeed. From the Wayback Machine, some illuminating reading about the Vincennes and the lead-up to the Iranair 655 shoot-down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060527...02/20note.html