
The Day a U.S. Warship Shot Down Iran Air Flight 655, Killing 290 People
On July 3, 1988, during the closing moments of the Iran-Iraq War, a routine commercial flight became one of aviation’s deadliest catastrophes when the USS Vincennes, a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser equipped with state-of-the-art technology, mistakenly fired two surface-to-air missiles…















