BA Flight 149: UK admits it did not warn Kuwait hostage flight
Source: BBC
BA Flight 149: UK admits it did not warn Kuwait hostage flight
By Gordon Corera
Security correspondent
23 November 2021
The foreign secretary has admitted that Parliament and the public were misled for decades about a British Airways flight which landed in Kuwait during an Iraqi invasion in 1990.
The passengers and crew of BA 149 were taken hostage, with many mistreated.
Newly released files reveal that the British ambassador in Kuwait warned the Foreign Office about the invasion, but BA was not told.
The government kept the warning secret for three decades.
However, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss reiterated earlier denials that the flight was being used for a secret intelligence mission.
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