Maybe nobody. It was probably just simple incompetence.
Incompetence? The idea that a ground to air missile launch can happen due to incompetence seems much more far fetched then it being done intentionally.
My company looked at the radar data from FAA, I managed & did the analysis. There was no missile imaged, the data was good enough to show white caps on ocean waves. Any missle even a stinger would have shown up. It wasn’t there in that data. Maybe there’s other data that shows something different, but not this data.
Anyway my rule-of-thumb: Never subsitutte convoluted conspiracy when simple incompetence satisifies the known facts. If other facts come to light that’s something different.
It was not. The flight was deliberately shot down by agents of a wealthy Iranian family in retaliation for the USS Vincennes shooting down Iran Air flight 655 back in 1988.
I know this because I know someone who was involved in the investigation and who told me exactly what happened and what evidence there was to support this conclusion.
They used a small boat and a surface to air missile to attack flight 800. Clinton ordered a deliberate coverup. And yes, this is exactly what the person told me, and no, this person is not a flake and this person was indeed in a fairly high level position at that time.
I conveyed this information to Jack Cashill about 10 years ago and he wanted to speak with this person directly. I contacted the person and the person said they could not do so without inviting unpleasant ramifications onto themselves, but this person left open the possibility of speaking on the matter eventually.