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Flight 149: Hostage of War

Flight 149: Hostage of War

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The story of the passengers of a British Airways flight who were held hostage in 1990 after the plane landed in Kuwait City while Iraqi forces were invading the country

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David Butcher

On 2 August 1990, the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait, a British Airways flight stopped to refuel at Kuwait airport. It never took off again. The passengers and crew were rounded up by Iraqi forces and held hostage at strategic locations by Saddam Hussein as “human shields”.

It was a terrible experience, as they recount in this well-crafted documentary that was first shown in June. And it was avoidable: there had been time to divert the flight once the Foreign Office was alerted to the invasion. So why did it actually touch down

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