Spudh
I would suggest a little research before getting the digits to type words that might not factually be correct:
Just one of many errors by the Vincennes on that day was the reporting of the IFF signal.
Glojo,
I was refering to the video in the OP's first thread. This was portrayed as a factual presentation. I jumped the gun assuming that the Airbus gave a code II squak. Consider my digits corrected.
Thank you for the information on how the mistake was made in the Vincennes.
I'm not trying to apportion any blame to the airliner itself, my original post was based on it being identified as an F-14 through its IFF (I was mistaken in by interpretation that the Iranian authorities had done this purposely), my argument was that even then it did not warrant a missile shot.
However, I still don't think Iranian authorities should have sent an airliner through a hot spot. Its normal to make course corrections for weather, why not divert around a warzone. Small consideration, but if its course was not a perceived threat to the Vincennes then nothing would have happened.