The Navy wasn’t just looking for a commercial airliner to shoot down from 33,000 feet for no reason, there is no comparison to what Russia did, and is doing here.
But thanks for thinking of the U.S. military and President Reagan when you want to prop up Russian aggression.
It’s a perfect comparison.
Both were accidental downings of a passenger plane in a warzone.
Both were misidentification.
The USA thought the passenger plane was an attacking tomcat fighter. 290 people on the passenger plane died, including 66 children.