UK admits failing to warn Kuwait-bound BA plane about 1990 invasion – The National
UK admits failing to warn Kuwait-bound BA plane about 1990 invasion – The National
The UK has apologised after admitting – 31 years later – that it failed to warn British Airways that Saddam Hussein’s forces had invaded Kuwait as one of its jets was due to land.
Flight BA149 landed in Kuwait in the early hours of August 2, 1990, with 367 passengers on board.
The travellers were kept hostage and mistreated for five months before they were finally released.
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