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 ...

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 ...

The plane turned into 300 tons of wreckage, with most of the debris ... He believes the bombing was an act of revenge by Iran after Iran Air Flight 655 was accidentally shot down on July 3 ...

During the melee, an Iran Air Airbus A300 passenger jet took off from Bandar Abbas International Airport and proceeded on a flight path over ... scattering wreckage across a 19-square-mile area.

Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by a U.S. Navy warship ... The plane disintegrated as it hurtled toward the ground, scattering wreckage across a 19-square-mile area. The missile was fired ...

shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian airliner carrying 290 passengers, over the Persian Gulf. The Navy’s justification-that this was an “unintentional error”- belies the harsh reality ...

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 ...

including involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister and shooting down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988. “The United States was not involved in any way and any ...

To some, the incident recalled the July 3, 1988, downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy, which remains one of the moments the Iranian government points to in its decades-long distrust of ...

The plane, Iran Air Flight 655, carried 290 people. The United States later called it “a tragic and regrettable accident,” and subsequently paid millions to settle a lawsuit that Iran filed at ...