Overview

• Flight 149: Hostage of War, directed by Emmy nominee Jenny Ash, premieres on June 11 on Sky following its SXSW debut.
• The film chronicles new survivor accounts of rape, mock executions and squalid living conditions under Saddam Hussein’s forces.
• McCue Jury & Partners instructed director Jenny Ash to preserve newly uncovered evidence for presentation at trial.
• Nearly 100 former passengers and crew filed a lawsuit in 2024 against the U.K. government and British Airways for “deliberately endangering them.”
• British Airways has dismissed the lawsuit as an “abuse of process,” rejecting claims of negligence over a covert intelligence mission.