The Airbus A300 was shot down by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile launched from U.S. Naval cruiser the USS Vincennes seven minutes into what was expected to be a expected 28 minute flight over the ...

Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran ...

All 300 passengers including 66 children died when the USS Vincennes apparently mistook the Airbus A300 for an Iranian F-14," Weilandt told Newsweek. "And now America should go to war because Iran ...

All 290 people onboard the aircraft perished. USS Vincennes mistook the A300 for an enemy Iranian F-14 Tomcat. Iran Airtour Airlines has a total of five A300-600s, of which two are operational and ...

WASHINGTON — The USS Vincennes, which shot down a civilian airliner in the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988, killing 290 people, had gained a reputation for being an overly aggressive “robo ...

The USS Vincennes shot down the airliner shortly after ... southern port city of Bandar Abbas to the spot where the Iran Air A300 Airbus was downed on July 3, 1988 – just a month before the ...

A quarter-century later, the Vincennes is almost completely forgotten ... the Iranian Airbus A300 wandered into a naval skirmish—one of many clashes in the ongoing “Tanker War” (another ...