#359 - Stephen Davis - The Secrets Of British Airways Flight 149
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Stephen Davis is an investigative reporter and an author.
On August 1st 1990, a British Airways flight departed London for Kuwait, on board were nearly 400 passengers including 9 secret service operatives. They landed in a war zone as Sadam Hussein's army rolled into Kuwait and took them hostage.
For the next 5 months they were used as human shields, and for the last 30 years BA and the UK Government has covered up why they were really there and what happened. Stephen has been investigating this story since it happened and today we get to hear what 30 years of research has uncovered.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today is Stephen Davis. He's an investigative reporter and an author. On August |
| 0:06.0 | 1st 1990, a British Airways flight departed London for Kuwait. On board were nearly 400 passengers, |
| 0:12.9 | including nine secret service operatives. They landed in a war zone as Saddam Hussein's |
| 0:17.8 | Army rolled into Kuwait and took them hostage. For the next five months, they were used as human |
| 0:23.6 | shields and for the last 30 years, BA and the UK government has covered up why they were really |
| 0:29.4 | there and what happened. Stephen has been investigating this story since it occurred and today, |
| 0:35.6 | we get to hear what 30 years of research has uncovered. Honestly, this story sounds like a BBC |
| 0:41.4 | dramatization gone wrong. I can't believe how many high level people are implicated in this. |
| 0:48.4 | Margaret Thatcher is lying to Parliament twice about why the plane landed and what time it landed. |
| 0:54.9 | The captain of the plane turned out to be an MI6 agent. It's insane. The work that Stephen's done |
| 1:01.6 | has uncovered some very, very scary insights. Before I get to other news, if you haven't already |
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