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Airbus A300B2 accident report
03 July 1988 Iran Air Airbus A300B2-203 EP-IBU c/n 186
Flight IR655 from Bandar Abbas (BND), Iran to Dubai (DXB) with 16 crew and 274 passengers. First flight : 16 March 1982. In flight the Airbus was hit by a SAM missile, fired from US ship USS Vincennes. The Americans mistook the Airbus for an Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcat. The Airbus crashed out of control in the Persian Gulf.
The Americans had send messages on a military frequency for identification, but this was not picked up by the Airbus crew.
Airframe hrs : 11497 engines : GE CF5-50C2. All people on board died in the crash.
location : 4 km SE of Qeshm Island +- 250m 26°43’00”N 56°02’00”E on this location debris was found floating on the sea service, by October 1988 the main wreckage was still not found.
Iran Air Force F-14 Tomcat
Iranian tugboat “Hirmand” GT157 length 26 [m], built in 1984 helped looking for wreckage and victims of the A300 crash in the Persian Gulf.
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