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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
There are couple of noteworthy differences though. Iran Air 655 was flying low enough that it was a more reasonable error to make (and it was flying 27 minutes off schedule)..
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Sure, but it was also misidentified as a F14 that was diving when it was an Airbus that was climbing. There were a lot mistakes that were needed for it to happen, but it still happened.
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The Malaysia flight was flying at an altitude that you would more likely expect a civilian aircraft to be.
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The history of warfare of is filled with examples of one side exploiting things that the other side consider "harmless".
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The Iran flight was 26 years ago. Surely there would be better safeguards in place now.
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I'll be surprised if the BUK system used was better than the 1988 version of Aegis.