While we get angry with the Russians, we might do well to remember that the US Navy shot down a large civilian aeroplane in the Persian Gulf in 1988, IR655, with considerable loss of life. According to Wikipedia, at a rather confused & dangerous time towards the end of the Iraq-Iran war, the US Navy had mistaken the A300 airbus for an F14 fighter. Perhaps we should look to the subsequent handling of that shooting for clues as to how to handle this one.
Wikipedia lists more than 20 such incidents since the second world war.
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