You may be right, I'm relying on memory, but I have read a few books on the subject and a couple of threads on here, and as pointed out there's always an arrser who knows the answer, so I'm trying to dredge it all up while sitting at my desk.
The plan certainly was to go for the carriers in order not to waste the exocet and they may well have made navigational errors. I read that all the countermeasures diverted the attack away from Invincible and poor old Atlantic Conveyor which didn't have the same counter measures took the hit instead.
I am happy to be corrected on the detail.
However the point I was making was that the pilot who took the shot had only brief seconds to make a positive identification before he was hit and his aircraft destroyed with him in it. The fact that he claimed he had hit the carrier and had no chance to make a confirmation or be debriefed meant that the Argentines received only that message. There was no confirmation from other sources and from online conversations there are many who take that as gospel. The attitude being on the lines of 'He was Argentine and therefore cannot be wrong, the perfidious pirates are covering up the fact that Invincible was lost, or at the least hit badly and a cover up took place so as not to lose face'
Pointing out that footage of Invincible arriving back intact with no signs of major damage are shrugged off as either us having a substitute carrier to take its place, or having a major bodge job done on the way back to cover it up. They refuse to see that if we had had three available they would have all gone south.
It's the mindset, Las Malvinas are Argentine and an Argentine pilot is to be believed before any number of Brits (and the physical evidence). There are a number of reasonable Argies that I have met and talked to, but there are still a rather large hardcore out there.
Edit to add; The sheer speed of modern jets and air combat make visual sightings far more fleeting than ever before. Had they come at us in Fairy Swordfish they might have made a better job of identification and possibly had a more successful attack.