The Secret History of Flight 149
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What followed has been dubbed the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years, and now there’s a new podcast about it. In this new podcast you’ll hear directly from the hostages - the people used as human shields by the Iraqi regime.
Listen to episode one here today.
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| 0:33.1 | episode. Instead, it's another podcast that I'd really recommend you listen to. From |
| 0:39.6 | crowd network, this is the secret history of Flight 149. Imagine boarding a flight |
| 0:47.7 | thinking you're going on holiday, but instead, you get taken hostage by Saddam Hussein. |
| 0:54.9 | It might sound far-fetched. Been August 1990. This really happened to the passengers and |
| 1:00.7 | crew of British Airways Flight 149. What followed has been dubbed the most shocking government |
| 1:08.5 | cover-up of the last 30 years, and now there's a podcast about it. |
| 1:14.2 | What I'm going to play you is episode 1. For episode 2 and beyond, you should go and |
| 1:19.3 | search for the secret history of Flight 149 in your podcast app. If you're listening |
| 1:25.4 | on Apple podcasts, it's also available at free on the Crowd Stories channel. |
| 1:32.1 | Journalist Stephen Davis has been reporting on this story for the last three decades. |
| 1:37.3 | And in this series, you'll hear directly from the hostages that people use this human |
| 1:42.9 | shields by the Iraqi regime. But why was the plane allowed to land at all? And why have |
| 1:49.8 | secrets and lies persisted for so many years? Have a listen to episode 1. Then go and subscribe |
| 1:58.3 | to the secret history of Flight 149. I think you'll find it fascinating. |
| 2:16.0 | That was when I saw what I recognized as a fighter bomber. And it was dropping bombs |
| 2:25.6 | in slow motion as it happened. It's just the way that it looked at the time. And that was |
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