Iranian flight 655

There's much in the news about Iran having accidentally shot down a civilian Ukrainian passenger jet. This is weirdly similar to a situation 30+ years ago. Here's a bit from Wikipedia on Iran Air Flight 655 ...

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board were killed. The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the flight's stopover location. The incident occurred during the final stages of the Iran–Iraq War, which had been ongoing for nearly eight years. Vincennes had entered Iranian territory after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits ...

Although the US would not admit it had been at fault, Ronald Reagan wrote to the Iranian government expressing regret and a settlement was reached at the International Court of Justice in which the US agreed to pay $61.8 million dollars to the families of the victims.