Human error led to a failed U.S. Navy ballistic missile intercept test, according to a report Monday.

A U.S. Missile Defense Agency investigation found a sailor on the destroyer John Paul Jones, the Navy’s ballistic missile defense test ship, pressed the wrong button into the combat system, causing the missile to self-destruct before reaching its target.

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