Incident
On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was involved in a shootdown. According to the record, 290 fatalities occurred. The event is commonly referred to as the 1988 airliner shootdown.
Documentation
This event is listed in the Wikidata aviation-safety dataset, which tracks over three thousand documented aircraft accidents and aviation occurrences spanning the entire history of powered and unpowered flight. Researchers cross-reference such records with primary investigative sources to analyze historical safety trends and identify recurring contributing factors across eras of aviation. The dataset's comprehensive collection enables the examination of patterns that may inform safety improvements. The inclusion of this incident contributes to the dataset's utility for historical analysis.