The disasters below include accidents, a bombing and military shootdowns; they are not all crashes in the same sense. They are arranged from fewer to more deaths so the final entry is the deadliest, counting victims on the ground where applicable.
Fatality figures can vary slightly between historical accounts, particularly when ground victims are included. The descriptions distinguish what happened from what investigators or authorities concluded, and treat those affected with respect.
6Iran Air Flight 655
On 3 July 1988, the USS Vincennes, a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Strait of Hormuz. The Airbus A300 was flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai on a scheduled passenger service.
All 290 people aboard were killed. This was a military shootdown of a civilian airliner, not an aircraft accident, and the incident caused lasting diplomatic and political repercussions.
