Airbus A300 crash, Jul 3, 1988 (290 killed), Qeshm Island
Airbus A300 accident on July 3, 1988 near Qeshm Island, Hormozgān, Iran with 290 fatalities. Cause: The Vincennes crew misidentified the climbing...
- Date: July 3, 1988
- Aircraft: Airbus A300
- Location: Qeshm Island, Hormozgān, Iran
- Fatalities: 290
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The Vincennes crew misidentified the climbing airliner as an attacking F-14 during combat with Iranian gunboats, and the US inquiry found the error was from stress and misreading of radar data rather than radar malfunction.
Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300B2 (EP-IBU) flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai, was shot down by two missiles from USS Vincennes over the Strait of Hormuz near Qeshm Island on 3 July 1988. All 290 people aboard were killed.