The USS Vincennes is in the Gulf to help defend travelling oil tankers from hostile Iranian speedboats. The Aegis radar picks up the track of an incoming aircraft. The ship’s sophisticated weapons system has to decide whether the aircraft is friendly, or an attacking warplane. But it can’t seem to make up its mind!

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Season 3 Episode 5 "Mistaken Identity": During a sea battle, a military radar operator stationed on a warship equipped with a highly sophisticated weapons system, mistakenly identifies an approaching civilian aircraft as a hostile F-14. The plane is shot down and all 290 people on board are killed. The ensuing investigation shows how fear led to a chain of errors and a catastrophic blunder.

Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic non-fiction series that investigates high-profile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget.

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