A British Airways flight to Hong Kong was forced to turn back more than a third of the way into its 12-hour journey after developing a “technical issue”.Flight BA31 was 35,000ft over Turkmenistan when the Boeing 777-200 aircraft was turned back to London on Sunday,

Passengers and crew of a British Airways flight who were taken hostage in Kuwait in 1990 have launched legal action against the UK government and the airline, a law firm said Monday.

Several passengers and crew members of a British Airways (BA) flight to Kuwait in 1990, during Saddam's invasion of the Gulf country, are suing the airlines and the UK government for complicity in the captivity situation they were held in for months.

Passengers on a British Airways flight from London tolerated an 11-hour trip when the aircraft was forced to return to where they started. On Sunday, flight BA31 departed from Heathrow Airport on what is usually a standard journey to Hong Kong International Airport,

The people, who were allegedly passengers of BA flight 149 were taken as hostage by Iraqi troops hours after Saddam Hussein launched his invasion.

British Airways and the UK government are being sued by nearly 100 people who were taken hostage in 1990 after their plane landed in Kuwait shortly after the beginning of the Iraqi invasion. McCue Jur

They claim BA and the government knew Iraq had invaded Kuwait before the plane they were travelling on landed in the country. The 367 passengers and crew of BA Flight 149 were taken hostage, and some were mistreated,

They were on board British Airways Flight 149 which landed at Kuwait International Airport in the early hours of August 2 1990, as Iraqi armed forces were invading. More than 300