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	Iran Air Flight 655 - Biocrawler
		Iran Air Flight 655 "IR655" was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		The officers identified the flight profile being flown by the A300B2 as being similar to that of an Iranian Air Force F-14A Tomcat during an attack run.
		The official ICAO report stated that these attempts to contact Iran Air 655 were sent on the wrong frequency and addressed to a non-existent "Iranian F-14".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Iran_Air_Flight_655 (927 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Iran Air Flight 655
		Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai, UAE.
		Iran had purchased Silkworm missiles from China, and an AEGIS cruiser was the only type of vessel that could counter the threat.
		The officers identified the flight profile being flown by the Airbus A300B2 as being similar to that of an F-14A Tomcat during an attack run; the commercial flight had originated at Bandar Abbas, which served dual roles as a base for Iranian F-14 operations and as a hub for commercial, civilian flights.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 (3058 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 Anniversary, Sea of Lies
		In the air, the F-14 pilots were itching to close in; a bogey out of Iran, heading for an American warship, are a rare opportunity for combat-hungry aviators.
		The version that Washington sold to its ally the Shah of Iran in the early 1970's was purely a fighter plane, not configured to strike surface targets.
		All 290 aboard the Iran Air jet were killed when crew members of the American cruiser USS Vincennes mistook the plane for an Iranian fighter and shot it down July 3, 1988.
	geocities.com /IranAirFlight655 (6610 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 information - Search.com
		Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Tehran to Bandar Abbas to Dubai.
		The official ICAO report stated that 10 attempts were made to contact Iran Air 655, seven on military frequencies, three on commercial frequencies and addressed to a non-existent "Iranian F-14".
		It is claimed that Flight 655 deviated from the center of its air corridor, an unusual occurrence with commercial flights (it was 3.35 NM off of the 10 NM-wide corridor at the time of shoot-down); It is further claimed that this deviation had it bearing straight at the Vincennes.
	www.search.com /reference/Iran_Air_Flight_655 (2164 words)

	History of Iran: Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655]
		On the morning of that disastrous day, 3rd of July, the captain and crew of Flight 655 were at Bandar Abbas airfield in southern Iran, preparing for the second leg of their routine 150-mile flight over the Persian Gulf to Dubai.
		Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		Since the "fl box" flight recorder on board the Iranian Airbus has been irrecoverably lost in the waters of the Persian Gulf, we shall never know exactly what her flight profile was, whether the crew ignored the American challenges or simply did not hear them.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/shootingdown_iranair_flight655.php (3385 words)

	IR655: Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (Sept. 8 1988) (Iran Air Flight 655)
		Commercial air traffic and commercial seafaring traffic was present at all times, and yet this ship had to stand guard 24 hours a day on an alert status which demanded such that it defend itself or others in the course of its mission.
		Flight 655 attained a maximum air speed of 385 knots, and during my further description of the engagement sequence I will try to explain how these facts were misinterpreted.
		Flight 655 remained on a constant bearing of 025 degrees, now 31 nautical miles from Vincennes on a course of 270 degrees at speed 350 knots, climbing through an altitude of 7,000 feet.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jksonc/docs/ir655-sasc-19880908.html (8062 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 Anniversary, Sea of Lies
		In the air, the F-14 pilots were itching to close in; a bogey out of Iran, heading for an American warship, are a rare opportunity for combat-hungry aviators.
		The version that Washington sold to its ally the Shah of Iran in the early 1970's was purely a fighter plane, not configured to strike surface targets.
		All 290 aboard the Iran Air jet were killed when crew members of the American cruiser USS Vincennes mistook the plane for an Iranian fighter and shot it down July 3, 1988.
	www.freewebs.com /iranairflight655 (6610 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai.
		Iran had purchased Silkworm missiles from China, and an AEGIS cruiser was the only type of vessel that could counter the threat.
		This was an agreed settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 (2460 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Iran Air Flight 655
		Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Tehran to Bandar Abbas to Dubai.
		It is claimed that Flight 655 deviated from the center of its air corridor, an unusual occurrence with commercial flights (it was 3.35 NM off of the 10 NM-wide corridor at the time of shoot-down); It is further claimed that this deviation had it bearing straight at the Vincennes.
		Iran Air is in the process of retiring the 747SP, 747-100B and 747-200B.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iran-Air-Flight-655 (571 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Iran Air
		Iran Air is the national and international airline of Iran, based in Tehran.
		Iran Air was established on February 24, 1962, after Iranian Airways and Persian Air Services joined together under the name of Iran National Airlines Corporation, known as Iran Air.
		By 1976, Iran Air was ranked second only to Qantas as the world’s safest airline that has been accident free for at least 10 years (although both airlines were accident free, Iran Air came second only because of fewer flown hours compared to Qantas).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iran-Air (4378 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iran Air Flight 655 "IR655" was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg, which resulted in 290 victims.
		Following the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 the British and American governments initially publicly blamed the PFLP-GC, a Palestinian terrorist group backed by Syria, with assumptions of assistance from Iran in retaliation for Iran Air Flight 655.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Iran_Air_Flight_655 (576 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran Air Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew on a Tehran - Bandar Abbas - Dubai route.
		On July 3 1988 the flight was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg which in 290 victims.
		Following the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 the British and American governments initially publicly blamed the PFLP-GC a Palestinian terrorist group backed by Syria with assumptions of assistance from Iran in retaliation for Iran Air Flight Only later this blame was shifted onto Libya.
	www.freeglossary.com /Iran_Air_Flight_655 (834 words)

	History of Iran: Shooting Down Iran Air Flight 655 [IR655]
		On the morning of that disastrous day, 3rd of July, the captain and crew of Flight 655 were at Bandar Abbas airfield in southern Iran, preparing for the second leg of their routine 150-mile flight over the Persian Gulf to Dubai.
		Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		Since the "fl box" flight recorder on board the Iranian Airbus has been irrecoverably lost in the waters of the Persian Gulf, we shall never know exactly what her flight profile was, whether the crew ignored the American challenges or simply did not hear them.
	iranchamber.com /history/articles/shootingdown_iranair_flight655.php (3385 words)

	Iran_Air_Flight_655 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down by the USS ''Vincennes'' on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg, resulting in 290 civilian fatalities from six nations including 66 children.
		Flight 655 deviated from the centre of its air corridor, an unusual occurrence with commercial flights (it was 3.35 NM off of the 10 NM-wide corridor at the time of shoot-down); that deviation had it bearing straight at the ''Vincennes''.
		This was an agreed settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice [http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/igeneralinformation/ibbook/Bbook8-1.59.htm].
	q-basic.xodox.de /Iran_Air_Flight_655 (1578 words)

	Mohsen Rezaian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Iran Air Flight 655.
		Captain Mohsen Rezaian (Persian: محسن رضاییان‎ ) was the captain of Iran Air commercial Flight Number 655 which was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes.
		Rezaian was a veteran pilot for Iran Air with 7000 hours of flight time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohsen_Rezaian (152 words)

	ipedia.com: Iran Air Flight 655 Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Bandar Abbas-Dub...
		Iran Air Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route.
		This version was finalised in a report [1] by Admiral Fogarty titled "Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July 1988".
	www.ipedia.com /iran_air_flight_655.html (611 words)

	Military Blunders
		Further adding to the confusion, the passenger flight had taken off from Bandar Abbas airport, which served both civilian and military craft and happened to be the center of Iran's F-14 operations.
		It was in the midst of this gunfire that Flight 655 took off, and was (as is routine) identified initially as a hostile aircraft by the Vincennes' AEGIS monitoring system.
		It is speculated that inside the cockpit of Flight 655, all channels were in use communicating with ground control, since the plane had just taken off.
	www.history.com /exhibits/military_blunders/mb_iasd.html (1210 words)

	Seychelles with Air Seychelles: non stop flight with value for money - London Mahe Seychelles the only non stop flight ...
		Air Seychelles is the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles.
		The Boeing 767, a twin jet engine half way between the size of a 757 and a 747, is used for the international long-distance flights of Air Seychelles.
		As the most ecologically friendly aircraft in it’s class, the new generation Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the obvious choice for the national airline of one of the most ecologically sensitive destinations in the world- the Seychelles Islands.
	airseychelles.co.uk (1181 words)

	Iran Flight 655: An Accident Waiting to Happen?
		In the aftermath, Iran Air Flight 655 was accidentally downed and all 290 passengers were reportedly killed.
		Iran regarded these U.S. actions as a direct threat, since Iraq and Kuwait were allies in the then eight-year-old war and because, in reality, the United States would be defending ships only against Iranian attack.
		The operational choices were to station combat air patrols continuously over the Gulf, a very costly exercise; assume greater risks and take no action; destroy the missiles ashore, which posed special problems; or station its most capable antiair ships in the Gulf.
	www.worldandischool.com /public/1988/september/school-resource14999.asp (564 words)

	WashingtonPost.com:
		Iran said 290 persons were aboard the European-made A300 Airbus and that all had perished.
		But in the past year, although the United States and Iran are not in a formal state of war, there have been a series of brief but fierce sea battles in the gulf between the two countries' military forces.
		The field at the base is used by civilian and military aircraft and recently had become the center for Iran's dwindling force of F14s, a twin-engine, two-place fighter that the United States sold to Iran during the rule of the shah.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight801/stories/july88crash.htm (1870 words)

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		The flight was assigned routinely to commercial air corridor Amber 59, a twenty-mile-wide lane on a direct line to Dubai airport.
		The officers identified the flight profile being flown by the A300B2 as being similar to that of an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-14A Tomcat during an attack run.() According to the same reports the Vincennes tried more than once to contact Flight* 655, but there was no acknowledgement.
		Most important, however, a flight schedule covering a joint military/civilian airfield it nearly useless in a tactical situation where the sortie of military aircraft on a combat mission would be made without regard to scheduled airline traffic, or use scheduled airline departure times for tactical cover.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/512-29945.aspx (5401 words)

	The Enterprise Mission - The REAL Mystery of Egypt Air flight 990
		New developments in the ongoing investigation into the crash of Egypt Air flight 990 show that the Enterprise Mission scenario of some "unexplained" (by conventional standards) event forcing the aircraft down is alive and well.
		It is hard to forget the images from a curiously similar catastrophe -- the eleven-year-old tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, downed by "accidental missile fire" from the USS Vincennes, then operating (during the Iran-Iraq War) in the Persian Gulf.
		Later, graphic pictures of many of the almost intact victims from Flight 655 floating in the Gulf were widely circulated by Iran; Newsweek's Bureau Chief in Paris, Christopher Dickey, would later describe the horrifying results of the Vincennes' missile firing...
	www.enterprisemission.com /egyptair3.htm (5046 words)

	Military Blunders
		Further adding to the confusion, the passenger flight had taken off from Bandar Abbas airport, which served both civilian and military craft and happened to be the center of Iran's F-14 operations.
		No Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System or Navy Hawkeye sentry planes were positioned over the Gulf to provide further identification of the aircraft, leaving the ship to rely on its own communication tools and instinct to make a decision.
		It is speculated that inside the cockpit of Flight 655, all channels were in use communicating with ground control, since the plane had just taken off.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/military_blunders/mb_iasd.html (1210 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran Air Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran, Iran - Bandar Abbas, Iran- Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates route.
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down, with 290 victims, on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg.
		To their horror, they soon discovered the downed jet was a civilian airplane, when many pieces of luggage and even bodies were seen floating near their ship.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Iran_Air_Flight_655.html (518 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran Air Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air, that flew on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates route.
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg.
		Th first leg of the flight went as planned, and the plane, an Airbus A300, left Bandar Abbas at 9:50 AM that day.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Iran_Air_Flight_655 (301 words)

	Iran Air Flight 655 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iran Air Flight 655 was a commercial flight operated by IranAir, that flew on a Tehran, Iran - Bandar Abbas, Iran- Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates route.
		On July 3, 1988, the flight was shot down,with 290 victims, on the Bandar Abbas-Dubai leg.
		At that same time, the US Navy guided missile cruiser, USS Vincennes, fitted with the Aegis combat system, was nearby in the Straitof Hormuz which the commercial airliner, flown by captain Mohsen Resaian, would pass over.
	www.therfcc.org /iran-air-flight-655-104950.html (334 words)

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