British Airways Flight 149 was a scheduled flight from London Heathrow Airport to Subang International Airport (now Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport), then the international airport for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, via Kuwait and Madras International Airports, operated by British Airways using a Boeing 747-136, with registration G-AWND, on 2 August 1990.

2023年9月27日 · During the early hours of 2 August a second British Airways (BA) flight - BA149 - landed in Kuwait to refuel. Ms Reynolds, now 58 and living near Harlington in Bedfordshire, awoke at the Regency...

On 1 August 1990, flight BA149 was scheduled to depart London Heathrow at 16:15 GMT for Kuala Lumpur, via Kuwait and Chennai. The departure was delayed by approximately two hours due to a fault with the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit. The Captain of the first leg of the flight was Richard Brungate and the Cabin Service Director was Clive Earthy.

2021年8月4日 · British Airways flight 149 departed London on the evening of 1 August, 1990, and headed into Kuwait for a scheduled stopover on its way to Asia, even as the invasion began that night. It landed on...

2021年11月23日 · 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....

2021年8月2日 · There have long been reports that 10 UK special forces soldiers joined BA flight 149 just before its departure from London Heathrow on August 1 1990. Some have speculated that the imperative to...

2021年11月23日 · Hundreds of British Airways passengers spent months as hostages after officials failed to warn the airline of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the government has admitted. BA149 landed on 2 August to refuel, despite the Foreign Office being warned of the movement of Iraqi troops by the then-British ambassador to Kuwait.

McCue Jury & Partners are proud to represent the passengers and crew of British Airways flight BA149, taken hostage by Iraqi armed forces at the outbreak of the First Gulf War.

2006年10月16日 · About 350 passengers on British Airways flight 149 thought they were refuelling in Kuwait en route to Madras and Kuala Lumpur. But it was the first day of Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait and...

2021年11月23日 · BA149 landed at Kuwait City on 2 August 1990 as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was beginning. The passengers and crew from the flight were subsequently held hostage by Iraq and mistreated. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) provided consular and diplomatic support to those involved from the outset, but there have long been questions about ...