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The 8th Minute: The day the US shot down Iran Flight 655, killing 290 people including 66 children
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Iran_Air_655_Strait_of_hormuz_80.jpg/220px-Iran_Air_655_Strait_of_hormuz_80.jpg
Upward Media Published on Jun 30, 2018: On July 3, 1988, at exactly 10:16 am, Flight 655 leaves Bandar Abbas Airport for Dubai. Only 8 minutes into the flight and above the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf, the Airbus passenger aircraft A300 is shot by United States Navy cruiser USS Vincennes. All 274 passengers, along with 16 crew members are killed. A total of 290 innocent lives are lost in a matter of seconds. But why was the Iranian passenger aircraft targeted? Vincennes crew claimed that they mistook this big aircraft for the much smaller F-14 jet. Yet Airbus A300 bears no resemblance to F-14 warplanes. The passenger airplane is much larger than the warplane and is not as fast. This documentary investigates the tragic incident through interviews with eyewitnesses and experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pjhszq-8U
Iran Air Flight 655
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf along the flight's usual route. Vincennes had entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits...
The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human lives, but never formally apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing. George H. W. Bush, the vice president of the United States at the time commented on a separate occasion, speaking to a group of Republican ethnic leaders (7 Aug 1988) said: “I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”
The 8th Minute: The day the US shot down Iran Flight 655, killing 290 people including 66 children
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Iran_Air_655_Strait_of_hormuz_80.jpg/220px-Iran_Air_655_Strait_of_hormuz_80.jpg
Upward Media Published on Jun 30, 2018: On July 3, 1988, at exactly 10:16 am, Flight 655 leaves Bandar Abbas Airport for Dubai. Only 8 minutes into the flight and above the turquoise waters of the Persian Gulf, the Airbus passenger aircraft A300 is shot by United States Navy cruiser USS Vincennes. All 274 passengers, along with 16 crew members are killed. A total of 290 innocent lives are lost in a matter of seconds. But why was the Iranian passenger aircraft targeted? Vincennes crew claimed that they mistook this big aircraft for the much smaller F-14 jet. Yet Airbus A300 bears no resemblance to F-14 warplanes. The passenger airplane is much larger than the warplane and is not as fast. This documentary investigates the tragic incident through interviews with eyewitnesses and experts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pjhszq-8U
Iran Air Flight 655
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf along the flight's usual route. Vincennes had entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits...
The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human lives, but never formally apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing. George H. W. Bush, the vice president of the United States at the time commented on a separate occasion, speaking to a group of Republican ethnic leaders (7 Aug 1988) said: “I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”