This week in history

July 3, 1988, Iran Air flight 655 was destroyed while flying over the Persian Gulf at the Strait of Hormuz. The Airbus A300 was shot down by surface to air missiles fired from the US Navy USS Vincennes. The airliner was identified as an enemy jet fighter. The aircraft was an International Flight heading to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, having departed Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Iran and Iraq were at war a...