The USS Vincennes is in the Gulf to help defend travelling oil tankers from hostile Iranian speedboats. Capt. Rogers and his crew are engaged in a sea battle with the speedboats equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers when 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.

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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 3 Episode 5 "Mistaken Identity": During a sea battle, a military radar operator stationed on a war ship 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.


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