US Navy Shooting down an Iran Airbus
I saw a tv program on National Geographic yesterday about a US Navy warship that shoot down an Iranian Airbus in the persian gulf. The main reason for the shootdown was lack of contact between the aircraft and the warship. The navy ship wasn't even equipped with a radio that could communcate on the civilian frequencies...
One thing that baffled me was that they were broadcasting warnings to the airbus on a military frequency, how dumb can you get? Do they actually belive that all civilian aircrafts are monitoring military frequencies...?
3/10 warnings were transmitted on the civilian emergency frequency but they never told anyone which aircraft they were talking to, only the speed and heading which of course was GS...
This was in 1988, is it still like that or did the navy learn something from this experience?