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This plane shoot down takes us to the middle eastern country of Iran, which is located next to the following countries: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE SHOOT DOWN AND A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash/ shoot down.
Iran Air Flight 655, registered as Echo Papa- India Bravo Uniform (EP-IBU), was a scheduled international passenger flight from Mehrabad International Airport (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII), Tehran, Iran to Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a scheduled stopover at Bandar Abbas International Airport (IATA: BND, ICAO: OIKB), Bandar Abbas, Iran, the flight was doing the Bandar to Dubai leg, when the plane was shot down on the 3rd of July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface to air missile that was fired from the USS Vincennes, which was a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, the aircraft operating this flight was an Airbus A300, the plane was destroyed by the missile and all 290 people on board the plane were killed, the plane was hit while it was flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the stopover airport for the flight.
At 10:24:22am local time, after the calls to the plane from the ship went unanswered, the ship fired two SM-2MR surface to air missiles, one of which hit the aircraft at 10:24:43am local time, the plane disintegrated immediately after it was hit and the debris crashed into the water soon after the plane was hit, no one on board the plane survived the crash, the CVR and FDR (Flight Data Recorder) were never found or recovered.
The summary of the crash was Shot down by a missile fired from the USS Vincennes; the reason for the shoot down is disputed.
Below is a video which explains what happened that day, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
Below is another video which also explains what happened that day, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
