[cmsgop]

The question I can't get past, is why the Israeli pilots didn't try international channels for a possible I.D. The whole thing sounds like overzealous trigger happy aviator and ground controllers.

Thats my feeling too.

[bvw]

This was called the "Six Day War" because it took six days. Had pilots and soldiers been twirling their radio dials around and around maybe it would have been called the Twelve Day War that Isreal Lost. Fortunately -- it was the Six Day War and the Isreali's did not waste any of the few precious seconds in those short six days that they had to defend themselves.