war and deadly miscalculations. one of the most famous examples was in 1988 involving the u.s. and iran an american warship at high alert in the persian gulf on the ship's radar an approaching aircraft mistaken for an iranian fighter. the commander of the "uss vinsons" giving an order to shoot it down the aircraft turned out to be iran air flight 655, a civilian airbus on route to dubai. all 290 people on board were killed. it was not the first time a commercial aircraft unwittingly flew into the fatal fog of war ten years earlier, korean air flight 90 flew off course in route from paris to seoul. attacked by soviet fighters, forced to land on a frozen lake killing two. then in 1983, another off course korean airliner was downed by soviet jets. 269 people on flight 007 were killed.