more than 350 passengers and crew were on board most were taken hostage for months. our security correspondent gordon corera is at the foreign office. do we now have a full picture of what happened? well, today we got an apology because it emerged that successive governments for 30 years had misled parliament and the public about ba149, which took off from london on august the 1st 1990, heading for asia but with a stopover in kuwait. it was that night that iraq invaded kuwait. the plane was unable to take off and passengers and crew were taken hostage and in some cases brutally mistreated over a period of months. what has emerged today in newly declassified files is that there was a warning. while the plane was in the air, the british ambassador in kuwait actually told the foreign office that some kind of