Why are you people still beating this dead horse? Its time to move on!
Here is a much more interesting incident, in which far more people
(all civilians) died:

3 July 1988: An Iran Air Airbus A300B2-203 (EP-IBU), flight IR655,
flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai, was shot down over the Strait of
Hormuz by two SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS
Vincennes. At about the time the Airbus took off, the Vincennes' radar
picked up a brief Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) mode 2 response,
which led to the mistaken identification of the Airbus as a hostile
Iranian F-14 aircraft. The USS Vincennes issued 7 challenges on the
Military Air Distress (MAD) frequency (243 MHz), addressed to 'Iranian
aircraft', 'Iranian fighter' or 'Iranian F-14'. These messages were
followed by three challenges on the International Air Defence (IAD)
frequency. A number of the AEGIS radar operators on the Vincennes
misread the displays and reported that the incoming plane was descending
with an increasing speed. This fact, and the fact that the aircraft
didn't respond to the challenges led to the decision to launch two
missiles against the perceived hostile target. All 290 passengers and
crew onboard the Airbus were killed.