'My childhood disappeared an instant after our British Airline flight was taken hostage' - The Mirror

‘Flight 149: Hostage of War’: The staggering story of 400 people taken hostage by Saddam Hussein’s forces –and the cover up that followed

Governments lie all the time. At the centre of staggering documentary Flight 149: Hostage of War (Sky Documentaries, available on demand) is a massive lie compounded by a cover-up: that the 400 passengers and crew of British Airways Flight 149, who were taken hostage by Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces 35 years ago, just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

'My childhood disappeared an instant after our British Airline flight was taken hostage' - The Mirror

A fascinating Sky Documentary airing tonight tells the shocking scandal of British Airways Flight 149, that was held as a hostage of war by Saddam Hussein in 1990

Flight 149: Hostage Of War