Originally Posted by
MickG0105
Regarding the USS Vincennes, you left out the bit where they challenged Iran Air flight 655 ten times to identify itself before firing at it.
You left out the bit how most of those transmissions were on military-only UHF, and the other transmissions were vague and non specific. At least the crew of the ship had the capability to warn them. Who knows, there might have been circumstances where the missile launcher crew genuinely believed they were a threat? Maybe one the crew had failed to fire an a target before believing they were a civilian aircraft and it turned out it was a military aircraft? Human factors played a part in IR655 and they probably played a part in this one too. It may be that they never come to light though.