At 11:59 PM 9/1/96 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:

At 09:04 PM 9/1/96 -0400, Alan Horowitz wrote:

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The Aegis ship in the Gulf wzs not in an exercise. It was in a war zone.

If my memory serves, the Iranian jetliner had its squawker turned off, or broken.

Your memory does not serve: The computers record of the events was:

Computer tells crew: Civilian jetliner on radar.

Crew expecting an attack by jetfighters, tell computer to shoot it down.

Computer does not put up a bunch of dialogs saying: "Hey, I think this is a CIVILIAN airliner, did you get that CIVILIAN airliner, are you quite sure you want it shot down? Instead it just shoots it down.

Suggestion for future improvement... C:>DEL AIRLINER.COM Are you sure? (Y/N) _ Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com