People on BA flight 149 were taken off the Kuala Lumpur-bound plane when it landed in the Gulf state on August 2 that year, hours after Iraq’s then leader Saddam Hussein invaded the country.Some of the 367 passengers and crew spent more than four months in captivity, including as human shields against Western attacks on the Iraqi dictator’s troops during the first Gulf war.
The action claims that the UK government and the airline “knew the invasion had started” but allowed the flight to land anyway.They did so because the flight was used to “insert a covert special ops team into occupied Kuwait“, the firm added. There have also been claims, denied by the government, that London knowingly put passengers at risk by using the flight to deploy undercover operatives and delayed take-off to allow them to board.British Airways has always denied accusations of negligence, conspiracy and a cover-up.
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