In 1988, the US cruiser USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 after mistaking it for an approach combat jet. All 290 aboard were killed. In 2014, a Russian anti-aircraft missile system ...

On July 3, 1988, an Iran Air plane, flight 655, was shot down by a United States Navy warship, USS Vincennes, over the Strait of Hormuz. All 290 passengers were killed when the ship’s missile ...

However, the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 just five months earlier evoked little American response. That commercial airliner was shot down by the USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser ...

A US Navy cruiser accidentally shot down an F/A-18 Super Hornet over the Red Sea in December. Both aviators were rescued without serious injury. The mistake bears similarities with a notorious ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing more than half of the 67 people on board, in an incident the White House suggested was caused by Russia. The aircraft was en ...

This was first studied in depth following the 1988 shootdown of Iran Air (IR) Flight IR-655 by the American-guided missile destroyer, the USS Vincennes. Flight 655 departed its origin city of Bandar ...

who was a passenger on Iran Air Flight 655, an actual plane that was mistakenly shot down in 1988 by an actual Navy ship, the USS Vincennes. All 290 passengers on board that plane were killed. Early ...

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evokes the 1988 tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, blown out of the sky by missiles fired from the USS Vincennes, which mistook the jet for a military fighter. A poet and editor at the Nation ...

The cover of Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, Martyr! (Knopf, 352 pages, $28), is a perfectly cheeky representation of the text within: an exclamation point in the title and an illustration of an ...

SIMON: And that flight, of course, is in the novel, but Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down in 1988, wasn't it? AKBAR: It was. It was. It was shot down by the USS Vincennes, a U.S. naval warship.

1988 The warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. 2012 Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million after winning the 2012 ...