The US downing of an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988 killing 290 civilians is not the only story that our mainstream media have chosen to forget In his recent FPJ piece The Forgotten US Shootdown of Iranian Airline Flight 655 publisher and editor Jeremy R Hammond notes that in the rare instances when the media do mention it to this day they tend to maintain official US government falsehoods about what occurred and otherwise omit relevant details that would inform Americans about what really happened 