On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was shot down by USS Vincennes which led to the loss of lives of 290 innocent civilians from six nations, including 66 children and 38 non-Iranians.

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shoot down by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655 , which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shoot down of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.