‘Unacceptable Failure’: UK Admits Not Warning Hostage Flight BA149 About Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait

British Airways Flight 149, from London, UK to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia via Kuwait, landed on 2 August 1990 within hours of Saddam Hussein’s forces taking control of the airport as Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait in 1990. The aircraft, its passengers and its crew were all captured and taken hostage.