On the night of September 3rd, 1989, a Boeing 737-200 carrying 54 passengers and crew, simply vanished into thin air over Brazil. The aircraft was in perfect working order, the weather was calm, and ...

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 ...

I’m touching the part that is interested in the Iran Air Flight 655 disaster ... When you read a book by a dead author, you might cry, you might laugh. I have always thought of writing as ...

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 ...

is Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar's debut novel about a young man named Cyrus Shams struggling with depression and the death of his mother, who was a passenger on Iran Air Flight 655 ...

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 ...

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He wrestles with his fixation on martyrdom by starting to write a book on historical martyrs ... She was one of 290 people killed on board Iran Air Flight 655, based on an actual event where ...

evokes the 1988 tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655, blown out of the sky by missiles ... She's the ideal muse for Cyrus' book project, a series of vignettes about martyrs, whose deaths transcended ...

He is writing a book about martyrs ... In 1988, the crew of the USS Vincennes mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for an attacking fighter jet and shot it down, killing almost 300 passengers.

His mother, Roya, was aboard Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by mistake ... So the uncle in the book - during the Iran-Iraq war, he has a job where every night after the battle, he ...

Had Iran Air Flight 655 strayed out of its approved air corridor when it was blown out of the sky by a U.S. Navy missile cruiser, or was the jetliner following its normal route? Was the plane ...