The Last Flight to Kuwait
I started watching this documentary/movie called The Last Flight to Kuwait which talks about the British Airways flight 149 that landed in Kuwait just as Iraq was invading back in 1990. I don’t know how accurate it is but it looks like its based on facts.
There always was a conspiracy surrounding the reason the BA flight landed in Kuwait. According to Wikipedia the flight landed after the invasion had begun but according to the documentary it landed just before. In any case, the documentary talks about the reason the plane landed in Kuwait which was because there were eight MI6 (the British secret intelligence service) agents that the British government wanted to position in Kuwait. It sounds very plausible especially since there is no other reason why BA didn’t cancel the flight like every other airline that night.
If you can manage to get a hold of the movie its definitely worth watching. The movie is a combination of real footage from the war, reenacted scenes and interviews with some of the passengers and crew of that flight.
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18 Comments, add your own...
1. izgerty | April 30th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Anyone knows a torrent link ?
2. izgerty | April 30th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1105079/Last_Flight_to_Kuwait_The_Secret_of_British_Airways_149
3. Mark | April 30th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
http://www.torrentz.com/d6204b6a3ee70b4682b4590ffb133111cb0eb7e9
4. izgerty | April 30th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Blocked by Qualitynet..
5. Marzouq | April 30th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Thats pretty cool!!!
Hey Torrentz is blocked by qualitynet for some reason!
6. lfc-q8 | May 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am
http://www.mininova.org/tor/629090
not blocked :)
7. TanGo | May 1st, 2007 at 12:28 am
both sites not blocked by KEMS
8. sabah | May 1st, 2007 at 12:44 am
My aunt and uncle were on that flight! They were like, “Crap!”
9. Qaiss | May 1st, 2007 at 1:20 am
i thought the plane was trying to takeoff not land in Kuwait at the last minute
10. A Big Shoutout to Airmiles Andy | May 1st, 2007 at 10:46 am
It was a Chennai bound BA flight from London. Believe it or not, Kuwait used to then be an important hub for South-East Asia bound traffic from Europe and the Lebanon.
Believe me, I should know - my alter ego was on that flight.
11. Haitham Issam | May 1st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Blocked by Etisalat!
12. Financy | May 1st, 2007 at 6:05 pm
there is a great invention called ” proxy “
13. limited_edition | May 1st, 2007 at 7:03 pm
wow…how interesting, never heard about that story b4, seriously am learning something new everyday! =P
cant wait il the downloading ends! =D
14. Joud | May 1st, 2007 at 11:15 pm
interesting.. i know a bunch of ppl who left beirut hours before the war last year; not quite the same but still must feel strange
15. bo9agr | May 3rd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
her’s a trailer for the movie:
http://www.bluepp.co.uk/portfolio/l/last-flight/video.mov
16. Leni | May 30th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Where can I buy that movie-any ideas, please e-mail me at selkhet62@yahoo.com. My younger brother and parents where there, and my brother will not talk about any of what happened, but he told my other brother it was a real depiction of the civilians in Kuwait. I want to understand what changed him so very much from the brother I knew.
17. kirsty | June 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
my husband is in that documentary and it really is terrible as it landed almost 5 hours after the invasion and there were special service men on board - the things they do are just incredible eh? Leni if you want a copy of the film try the production company….type last flight to kuwait in google and you should be able to track them down
18. ElMiloudi Hamid | November 23rd, 2007 at 6:00 am
I have not seen the documentary yet to know how accurate the story is. However, I was there at the SAS Hotel when the flight crew and the ASSAULTED and RAPED stewardess were brought in. The Young Indian Stewardess was distraught, crying and being supported by her fellow Ladies from the crew as they walked her in through the Hotel doors. I was maybee 4 feet away from her and the folks helping her. The Lady was about 5Ft. 5 or 5 Ft.6, with long auburn hair, weighing maybe in the vicinity of 145/150 Lbs.She was sobbing and hysterical and she could not even walk on her own. Luckily later either the British ar Indian Authorities came in to the SAS Hotel and took her away, I supposed to safer surrounding. I have committed her sagga to my tapes upon my return to the US after Saddam released all of us. Of course I got back to Chattanooga on December 12, 1990 and my tapes were made on January 11, 1991.This Young Lady’s odessy as well as the oddessy of the KLM Pilot are all committed into my tapes fresh as a new returnee from my ordeal with Saddam and his madness. As a reference do check me out on google as: ElMIloudi Hamid.Also you can read about me in the book written by the Honorable Nathaniel Howell, US Ambassador, Kuwait during the crisis period.Please refer to crisis management, invasion of Kuwait, University of Virginia publishing. My nickname is Mr.” Greenjeans” since I have grown the garden at the US Embassy, Kuwait.For my clarifications or extra info contact me : ehamid@aol.com
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