The Last Flight to Kuwait - Part 10 of 10

[DanyLofico]

@tavvenbizzy07 Thatcher was not the worst PM of Uk and far less incompetent, she was indeed the best among UK's PM, she did a lot for that country but the problem was the political ethics and their crappy ways of dealings and more that delusional thoughts of being "all powerful" and disposing of the country and the civilians which serve best their ordeals.

[MrBaebel]

It's so incredibly disgusting how deliberatly and calculating British Government did act. This is as a reckless and heinous foul play to international community as Saddam's war was.

It's even worse because they were civilians of their own and of befriended countries.

And if a Government treatens its own civilians like that there's no wonder that its elite soldiers die from crappy food rations.

SAS obviously don't have any transport facilities nor adequate equipment. It's just ridiculous...crappy

[aimellia626]

so u sacrifice the lives of innocent civilians, and at the end of it all for wat?

[tavvenbizzy07]

This woman ( Thatcher ) was possibly the worst PM of our country , nevermind her incompetence , but lying blatantly is unforgivable !!

[B0eing1992]

If she knew about the invasion one hour before they arrived, why the fuck what you not divert. That alone caused the hostage situation?

[Hperman09]

Saddam was a murderer like Hitler before him. He killed over 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians, killing thousands of his own people and Iranians in the 80s, even gave his troops an order to burn down Kuwaiti oil fields which is a major disaster in the Persian Gulf, and slaugerting 100,000 Kurds and Shiite rebels during the aftermath of the first Gulf War. The oil fields in Kuwait still hasn't recovered to this day after Iraqi troops burned their oil fields. 

[yinstube]

I may have missed it; but some of the crew members went into hiding, right? How did that go? The end of the documentary states that they all survived. But the film did not seem to have elaborated on that. Or did I miss it?

[fripouille69]

Thanks to bjones4 for posting this (good image and sound quality too...)

I don't think the British government knew that the passengers would find themselves in that position when the plane landed, and civlilian flights are routinely used to place military personnel in conflict zones. Don't like it? Change planets. Whatever, Saddam's actions in using women and children as emotional blackmail and men as human shields means I drank a bottle of Bordeaux the day he was hanged.

[3132no]

I was on the plane. I lost my home as a consequence. Total compensation from BA was 200 pounds. American passengers may have got compensation - not so the British.

[FatStrangeKid]

The Emirs brother is still alive WTF :S

[Peregrine1946]

Gone are the times that people accepted certain risks to be secure and free; now they whine and, of course, sue when their comforts are risked. What happened was wrong but what do you want--to change the entire order of nationhood and the interactions between countries and cultures? When I was young, I'd have said "yes, exactly" but now I don't have such a clear vision of these things. I'm not surprised that the Americans flocked to a rich Texan lawyer as soon as they got home.

[jamesrumsey]

yummy, yummy oil!!!!!

[SAVDC10]

The 747 was completely destroyed at Kuwait. Bloody Iraqis!

[irfand4]

What an outrage !!

[nhjuv]

1:13 his laugh  loooooool

[Nekonoaijin]

keeprighton - not quite. US legal system is much more robust and forced BA to settle out of court, in the UK they had a quiet word with the judge in closed session (where they apparentl laid out that they'd been ordered in and thus were not liable) and got the case dismissed. It took another ten years of investigative journalism to get the proof behind all that. Thatcher lied, Major 'fudged' and BA hid behind a corrupt court system and powerful government friends.

[rowes717]

first of all,

it is a big mistake to say that shaikh ahmad alfahd is the amer's brother if that person was really ahmad alfahd he is the the amer's nephew.

In 2010, ahmad alfahd is deputy prime minster of kuwait.

Another thing, the shaikh who was killed in that day is fahd alahmad the father of shaikh ahmad and the amer's brother and i don't think that he was in that plan.

[qadsawe88]

Fuck iraq as country ,,

Fuck iraq as ppl

Fuck saddam hussain

glory for kuwait , saudia , arabian gulf ,, US , Uk , and all other alliance

[AceSe3don]

@qadsawe88

No..

Saddam was the bad guy, he ordered his people to do this while there was a number of them who hated to do so...

There were noble Iraqi people at the time of this war...

but most were bastards of course...

Anyways, Praise is due to Allah that we Kuwaitis now are free...

Sadam shall get what he deserves...

[qadsawe88]

@AceSe3don i`m with u in that point ,,

99% of iraqi ppl are bastards

1% maybe good ,, not sure if all of the 1% are good

[algism99]

fuck British Airways for delivering own citizens to enemies.

Worst way to grab intelligence information.

[julesjones423]

Thank you for posting this. Very informative, and very scary.

[salemeid]

kuwait from 2-8-1990 to 26-2-1991

:(

kuwaiti

[Jsworld1980]

when was this made?

[sestrensaz]

The date can be seen at the end in roman numerals - the BBC do this for all their programming. 8:47 reveals MMVII - that's 2007.

[qadsawe88]

@sestrensaz it was 1990-aug-2

[antimatterXXXIII]

Ms. Thatcher - what an iron-bottomed prig.

[antimatterXXXIII]

Lesson to be learned: Do NOT fly BA - this is not their only prickish episode.

[SuperWarking]

It wasn't? What other stunts did they pull?? I'm just asking more out of shock because regardless of when it was, this incident alone still happend...

[antimatterXXXIII]

Ask the companies like British Caledonian they put out of business using political connections.

[am1966ath]

It is an outrage that a government uses the national airline for military purposes endangering the lifes of its passangers and then lying about it..shame on BA

[HeathrowSpottingHD]

well BA will learn from this BIGTIME! just shows what pricks the fucking Iraqs are like, why are they even aloud entry into London since this? i dont know! whats been going on lately with all these terriorst plotts happening like the emirates one a couple of days ago just shows it. only one sultion to this and thats not allowing people like this into our country. and also if i was a passenger i would have sued BA to the ground for putting everyones life at risk! i can watch sadam get hung al day

[cupomash]

The government lied and used them as pawns!!!! wow shock horror never thought the governments lied to there people it's a new one on me..

[Jsworld1980]

it wouldn't be the first time, in regards of the US and Britain.

[keeprighton2007]

what a difference in cultures - the British just accept it and get on - the Americans....money, money, money!

[ehwhat0]

Incompetence, naivete, and recklessness put those people in danger- all for the sake of a marginally effective intelligence mission. But incompetence, naivete, and recklessness on Saddam's part also saved them. The whole time, their presence was handled very haphazardly: he foolishly believed the invasion could be turned into a PR victory, so he kept them in nice hotels and made nice in front of the cameras. The post-Kuwait Saddam would have leveraged their butts, possibly to great effect.

[zezo104ever]

that was awesome but abit shitty but awesome ! i loved it ! XP

[zezo104ever]

ITS FAHAD AL AHMAD !

[q891]

eee bl ghala6 !!!!!!!! shd3waa ??!!!

[zezo104ever]

What ?

[q891]

what what ??

[KINGKENNYTHEHOLY]

Well,they should come clean,at least then the passengers can take pride in saving maybe countless coalition forces...and that is something to be proud of indeed..IMO they should have been granted veteran status(like we military are)for their unvolintary but still courageous service to their country!

[bleushift]

woow great documantary

but i feel awful for the passengers and i hope the brittish government will come cleant o what happened but bet ur ass thell never do that margerat tarcher is just as a dictator as bush

and iam fucking glad saddam hoessein is finally dead that sonof a iraqi whore sick fuck asshole

[benolly22]

Thanks for the upload. But it still makes my blood boil to watch that bitch Thatcher lie through her teeth as usual in the house of commons

[DSengendo]

ii felt the same, lool

[estelle715]

I always wondered about what happened "behind the scenes" on this story. As it could of been any of us on any trip abroad. Very interesting! It shows you can't trust anybody!

[musu20]

thanks so much for this doc.

[jem007in]

nevr thot BA ll do dat 2 it'z passangr... shame on BA

[3132no]

BA behaved worse than the Iraqis. If I hadn't experienced it I'd never have imagined a company could be so...evil.

A thoroughly unpleasant and sinsister organisation.

[celticlofts]

BA the Worlds favorite Fuckup.

[bfordca]

Thissecrecy is typical in Britain. I'm glad I moved to the US. At least the US system of government seems to be more open and the lawsuit threat in the US keeps the politicians more alert

[Oranjee1089]

Wow bdfordca... I always thought about moving to the USA.. but in the current financial crisis... I cant at the moment.. Ive been to america on holiday.. it was nice..

[supertuber97]

thanks for the upload. what a fantastic documentary. looking forward to more now i've subscribed. thanks again

[LindaHammonds]

There is much in life of which we never have answers. It is something that we need to accept.

Good documentary. Thanks for the post.

[kcy29581]

What an amazing documentary. Thank you so much for posting!

[Shardith]

This story was absolutely riveting. Thank you so much for posting.

[22BreakAway22]

.this made me cry.

[UglyRats]

This was very interesting. I wonder what else the government has been hiding. Thanks for posting.

[julesjones423]

@UglyRats Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I don't think I want to know what the government is hiding. It might make me very angry.

[ericssson]

can Mi6 do anything right

[holstenpils]

It is a known fact that some BA staff are British Agents too, good stuff bjones4

[bg11215]

Why did the captain not consider refusing to fly the aircraft, or divert, news or no news? Or at least warn the passengers that they'd be flying at their own risk? It seems kind of negligent on his part too. He was the captain and bore some responsibility here, did he not? Just the fact that you have to check for news to see if the country you're about to fly into has been invaded yet or not--if you're at that point, isn't that already a huge red flag??? To me it would be.

[bg11215]

Wow I had not even heard of this incident before watching this. What does that guy mean, he'd like to have someone from the British government knock on his door and explain what happened? Isn't it obvious? They needed to insert that special ops group "inconspicuously", and they used this civilian flight to do it. Someone should be held accountable, as it was negligent to say the least by someone somewhere. They should conduct a full investigation, right on up to 10 Downing St.

[zeppelin64]

at some point during this documentary, the iraqi soldiers shoot one of their fellow in the hotel.. someone knows why he was shot?

[jkerownsall]

becouse he abused a women=raped

[uploader1010]

good video

[Eric2221]

very interesting, thanks for sharing this

[khaled67q]

thank you so much bjones4!

[detagirl]

Thank you for this eye opnining true story.

[Avantime]

No comment = It's true

[Nabalathu]

This was an extremely interesting documentary, my face was practically glued to the computer screen the whole time, thank you so much for posting bjones4!

[ILoveBritishAirways]

i really never knew this ever happened,, Its very sad to know that happened..

[mrcheeky112]

the only chance to world peace is 2 hang every government president etc on earh! greedy bastards!

saddam the bastard destroyed the his nation killed 50 000 of his soliders fucker!

[Pyroman1990]

So sad, 747-100 series, really nice plane, such history was wrecked.

[q8ali1234]

I blame Saddam .. lol XD

[Nneka1963]

Thanx very much for posting this Bjones4! I had no idea that this had happened! It just confirms why I hate the power of the Governments! We are just ants that these powers to be will do with us what they want! It all boils down to oil = money = POWER...THE 5% that control this world ARE The NWO! :o(

[shadowq8]

not sure why they did it still a lot of unclear questions. But sheikh ahmed il fahad, never knew he was on that flight,

I heard a lot of rumors about his death. This is very interesting.

[ansarinho]

yeah there are many rumours ... i never knew he was on that flight

[ConradTheCruel]

@Nneka1963 How do you think your life would be if the government did not protect its access to oil?