Top 10 deadliest airplane shootdown incidents
- By Lu Na
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Iran Air Flight 655
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The Iran Air Flight 655 was on a flight from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai, UAE on July 3, 1988 and was shot down by US Navy, killing 290 passengers and crew on board. It was in the end of Iran-Iraq War, the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an Iranian F-14 jet and was shot down by the US Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes when it fired a SM-2MR surface-to-air missile, according to the explain of the US government.
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