Iran Air Flight 655 shootdown

When

3 Jul 1988

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

26.67° N, 56.04° E

Description

1988 airliner shootdown

Deaths

274

Injured

0

Cause

interception

1988 aircraft shootdown over the Strait of Hormuz

Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the Vincennes CG-49, killing a total of 290 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Iran Air'ın 655 sefer sayılı uçuşu: Tahran-Dubai seferini yapan İran Hava Yolları uçağı, kendisini İran savaş uçağı zanneden Amerikan kruvazörü USS Vincennes…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Persischer Golf, Straße von Hormus, ein Airbus A300 der Fluggesellschaft Iran Air wird versehentlich durch das US-amerikanische Kriegsschiff Vincennes…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le vol 655 Iran Air est abattu par erreur par des missiles américains au-dessus du golfe Persique, entraînant la mort de 290 civils dont 66 enfants”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ракетный крейсер Vincennes ВМС США сбил иранский пассажирский самолёт рейса 655 компании Iran Air, погибло 290 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el crucero estadounidense Vincennes dispara misiles contra un avión civil iraní Airbus (Vuelo 655 de Iran Air), matando a sus 290 ocupantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حمله موشکی ناو وینسنس به پرواز شماره ۶۵۵ ایران ایر در خلیج فارس”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “伊朗航空655號班機從伊朗的Bandar Abbas飛往阿拉伯聯合酋長國的杜拜，在波斯灣上空的國際航道被美國海軍軍艦文森號（USS Vincennes）誤當成伊朗空軍的F-14雄貓式戰鬥機而遭飛彈擊落，機上的274名旅客及16名機組員全數罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イラン航空655便エアバスA300B2がアメリカ海軍のイージス艦「ヴィンセンス」に撃墜され、乗員乗客290名全員が死亡（イラン航空655便撃墜事件）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page