British Airways

British Airways   (Airline)
Formation	1919
Headquarters	Heathrow Airport, London, UK
The flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main hub at Heathrow Airport.

British Airways Flight 149

Stephen Davies, when investigating how British Airways Flight 149 was used to transport military operatives into a war zone, wrote:

An MI6 source explained to me the cozy relationship between British Airways and the intelligence services. BA, he said, is known to the service as "Bucks Fizz" and any mission would always involve co-opting the pilot. These type of black ops missions are much more common than is realized; all governments are fond of them because they provide deniability, but they blur the lines in ways that have serious potential consequences for the companies involved.

The pilot-in-command of the Heathrow-Kuwait leg was Captain Richard Brunyate, was an MI6 asset, and knew the plane was carrying a secret team of spies. Because of this, Brunyate had been given contacts with the Kuwaiti resistance, and managed to escape with several other crew members from the hotel they were being held in, while the more than 300 passengers were held hostage by Iraq.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
British Airways Flight 149	Kuwait	Flight 149 landed in Kuwait City only two hours after Iraqi forces had started the 1990 invasion. The British government put the passengers in danger in order to insert military personnel engaged in a ‘black ops’ mission.

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