He believes that the perpetrators were Iran; who targeted the plane in retribution for Iran Air Flight 655; an airbus that was accidentally shot down in July 1988 by the US Navy, killing 290 people.

On the wall of Dr Jim Swire and his wife’s bedroom hangs a painting of their daughter, Flora. She’s smiling, dressed in white and clutching a bunch of flowers in her right hand while poignantly ...

Photo: The USS Vincennes fires a surface to air missile towards Iran Air flight 655 on 3 July 1988 (Rudy Pahoyo) ...

But this was shot down by Russia and its allies in ICAO. On July 3, 1988, an Iran Air plane, flight 655, was shot down by a United States Navy warship, USS Vincennes, over the Strait of Hormuz.

On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 took from Bandar Abbas Airport in Iran. There was nothing extraordinary about the morning trip. It was a routine, twice-weekly flight from Iran to Dubai ...

His mother, Roya, was aboard Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by mistake by the U.S. Navy during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. He and his father, Ali, wind up moving to Indiana, where Ali ...

In 1988, amid soaring tensions in the Persian Gulf, an American warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air Flight 655. Just five years before that, during the Cold War, a Soviet warplane shot ...

Iranians throw flowers into the sea to mark the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 on July 2, 2012. (Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...

History suggests it just might. The incident is highly reminiscent of the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988, which also occurred during a “hot” phase of the U.S.-Iran conflict and opened ...

But the feeling in Iran was the plane was downed on purpose. “The shoot-down of Iran Air flight 655 was an accident, but that is not how it was seen in Tehran,” former CIA analyst Kenneth ...

The barge in question was built around six years ago and originally explained as a prop for Airbus, a never-released film about the 1988 destruction of Iran Air Flight 655 with all 290 people on ...