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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Greg Evans

Flight 149: Hostage of War - Why was a BA Flight allowed to land in the middle of the Gulf War?

A new documentary from Sky explores the shocking ordeal that the passengers and crew of British Airways Flight 149 endured after they inadvertently became involved in the Gulf War.

Flight 149: Hostage of War, which has been released by Sky Documentaries, tells the story of how the 367 people on the plane were taken hostage and seriously mistreated and sexually assaulted by the Iraqi forces who had recently invaded Kuwait and kickstarted the Gulf War in August 1990.

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