Whichever way it is looked at, the inevitable conclusion must be, it was an accidental shooting of a civilian airliner.If the guys on the USS Vincennes, with all their state of the art equipment and training could get it wrong, which they obviously did, what could be expected from a bunch of half wits who got their hands on this kind of lethal equipment. With three missiles remaining unlit in the tubes it could have been a whole lot worse. There were other targets to have a pop at after all.