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Cosmopolitan
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Chappell Roan Admits Backlash Gets to Her: 'It Makes Me Cry'
Chappell Roan is fierce all around, whether through her larger-than-life music, drag-inspired fashion, or how she publicly stands up for herself. While she has spoken her mind multiple times, the Grammy winner recently opened up about the constant criticism she receives and how it sits with her during a conversation with SZA for Interview magazine. 'I guess I wondered if you gave a fuck about the backlash,' the SOS singer asked, to which Chappell responded, 'I didn't, until people started hating me for me and not for my art.' The 'Pink Pony Club' hitmaker, whose real name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, continued, 'When it's not about my art anymore, it's like, 'They hate me because I'm Kayleigh, not because they hate the songs that I make.' That's when it changed.' She added that while people know her as her public, on-stage persona, they don't know who she really is deep down. 'But when things are taken out of context, people assume so much about you. I didn't realize I'd care so much. When it comes to my art, I'm like, 'Bitch, you can think whatever you want. You are allowed to hate it with all your guts,'' she shared. 'But when it comes to me and my personality, it's like, 'Damn. Am I the most insufferable bitch of our generation?'' SZA, who initially rose to fame in the 2010s because of her booming music career, shared a similar sentiment. Upon hearing Chappell's confession, the One of Them Days star revealed she 'felt relieved' that she 'gives a fuck' and reassured her that it's beautiful to feel deeply. 'I felt like I was a punk bitch for feeling the way that I feel, because I'm just like, 'Oh, maybe I'm just not cut out for this shit,'' SZA said, referencing her fame. 'Because everybody else who's cut out for this shit doesn't give a fuck. But that's not true.' 'The Giver' singer then said that reading backlash aimed at her sometimes brings her to tears. 'It makes me cry,' she admitted. 'I don't know if it will ever feel okay to hear someone say something really hateful about me.' Elsewhere in the interview, the stars chatted about believing in magic and gushed about their mutual admiration for each other. Earlier this year, SZA reacted to Chappell naming her as a dream collaboration on Call Her Daddy, saying, 'Actually didn't believe this quote when I saw it written til I saw it come out her mouth jus now CAUSE DEAD ASS SAME.' She added, 'pls we must.' And with that, we will be (im)patiently waiting for an inevitable collab from these icons.
Metro
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
‘I co-wrote Chappell Roan's famously explicit lyric in my parents' basement'
'Knee deep in the passenger's seat and you're eating me out, is it casual now?' is arguably the most iconic lyric of 2024, from Chappell Roan's hit song Casual. It was Morgan St. Jean who gave the Pink Pony Club hitmaker the idea for this memorable line, years ago in her parents' basement. But while even your gran has heard of Chappell by now, you've probably never come across Morgan. Let me introduce you: Morgan is a self-titled 'feminist pop princess' with almost 300,000 Instagram followers, one of which is the Good Luck, Babe! hitmaker herself. Casual aside, one of Morgan's biggest moments on the world stage so far came in the form of Not All Men, her 2021 campaigning single which went viral, amassing 1.4million TikTok views in 48 hours. Now, she's approaching 900,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Morgan is currently working on her debut album, having signed a publishing deal, in part due to the success of Casual. Let's just say, things are bubbling. 'It's been amazing, because now I have a whole team of people whose job it is to put me into sessions and to pitch my songs,' she tells Metro on a Zoom call, in a down-to-earth West Coast accent. 'It happened right after Covid,' Morgan said of the collaboration she never realised would be a pivotal moment – culturally and personally – until years later, when Chappell exploded into the mainstream. 'I was living with my parents' house. A friend of mine was managing me at the time, it wasn't anything serious but he was helping me out.' This manager asked Morgan if she would be up for doing a session with this cool artist. Luckily, Morgan was 'very much in my yes phase of life'. 'So she came over and we wrote it in my parents' basement,' said Morgan with a half laugh. 'I remember her telling me about a situationship she was in, and she said something about being casual, and we were like, 'That's cool. Let's lean into it a little bit.'' 'I remember she said something about Alanis Morissette saying, 'Would she go down on you in a theatre,' and Chappell said, 'I love how aggressive that is, and how direct it is.' 'It's almost hard to remember the details, because it was so long ago and no one had any idea it was going to be an important moment,' Morgan admits, continuing: 'But I think I said something along the lines of, 'Would you say, 'you're in the passenger seat and you're eating me out, is it casual now?''' Fortunately, that was exactly the kind of lyric Chappell digs, and one thatepitomises her frank, kinky spirit fans have come to obsess over. 'I actually listened back to the original demo we did in my parents' basement. Originally it was waist deep in the passenger seat, I didn't even remember that,' says Morgan. 'I remember she was playing the piano, her voice was this cool, yodelling almost. It was just amazing. Just her and I.' Morgan knew 'very little' about producing at the time, but was able to get a little demo together for Chappell. After that, Morgan didn't hear anything about Casual for years, aside from a few message exchanges with Chappell. 'Years later her team reached out to me – she was starting to bubble but she certainly wasn't Chappell Roan yet – and said she wanted to release Casual as a single. 'But they had changed most of it. The thing that stuck was the chorus. 'It was really cool to hear. I think what they did is magical. I just feel so lucky I was in the right place at the right time. I think she's a once in a generation talent, I really do.' Surely, Morgan must have been just a little envious that her work blew up under the banner of a different singer? Not one bit. 'That session was always meant to be for her. I never planned on cutting it or singing it. The re-writes she and Dan Nigro did made it so special,' she says. Morgan covers the song regularly at her own gigs, which she takes pride in. 'It's so fun because I think my version when I sing it is so different than hers,' she says. 'I'm just so grateful she brought it to life. It was always meant to be her song. There isn't a piece of me that feels like it was meant to be my song.' Imposter syndrome is something Morgan is grappling with, as she's being approached for work opportunities more than ever, rather than shamelessly flooding the DMs of producers as she has done in the past. 'It's opened doors for me to work with other people I wouldn't have had the opportunity to before,' she says. 'It's been crazy.' 'I know that it sounds silly, and we shouldn't wait for external things to build our own value, but after many years of really putting in the work and trying, it is nice to get a little bit pat on the back.' Chappell hasn't forgotten Morgan's contribution, either. More Trending 'What I really admire and respect is that from my perspective, I only met her that one time in that session,' she says. 'I never worked in a room with Chappell and Dan when they were finishing the song. 'Yet, they invited me to this Grammy performance at the Grammy Museum the night before she was nominated for every award, because they were performing that song. It was a very small intimate room. To me, that speaks volumes to their character. 'That they still include me in the success of that song, it means so much to me.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Country music is booming in 2025 – but Nashville is 'receding into itself'
Business Insider
06-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Truist Financial Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Celsius Holdings (CELH)
Truist Financial analyst Bill Chappell maintained a Buy rating on Celsius Holdings (CELH – Research Report) today and set a price target of $50.00. The company's shares opened today at $40.67. Confident Investing Starts Here: According to TipRanks, Chappell is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 1.4% and a 48.75% success rate. Chappell covers the Consumer Defensive sector, focusing on stocks such as Celsius Holdings, Freshpet, and Church & Dwight. In addition to Truist Financial, Celsius Holdings also received a Buy from William Blair's Jon Andersen in a report issued on June 4. However, on May 29, Bank of America Securities reiterated a Sell rating on Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ: CELH). The company has a one-year high of $75.11 and a one-year low of $21.10. Currently, Celsius Holdings has an average volume of 7.98M. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 62 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CELH in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in March 2025, Caroline S Levy, a Director at CELH sold 70,000.00 shares for a total of $1,878,800.00.
Indian Express
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Indian Express
‘His decision was not born of diminished skill': Greg Chappell says Virat Kohli announced retirement due to loss of mental clarity
Former Australia player Greg Chappell said that Virat Kohli has taken the decision to retire from Tests was not because he was out of form but due to the toll the game has taken on him mentally. Chappell added that Kohli hung up his boots due to the loss of mental clarity required to perform at the highest level. 'His decision was not born of diminished skill, but from the growing realisation that he could no longer summon the mental clarity that had once made him so formidable. He accepted that, at the highest level, unless the mind is sharp and decisive, the body falters,' Chappell wrote in his column for ESPNCricinfo. 'When doubt begins to settle in the bones, it disrupts decision-making, impairs footwork, and erodes the spontaneity essential to elite performance. Kohli's retirement is a reminder that form is more a function of the mind than it is of mechanics,' Chapell added further. Last month, Kohli announced his Test retirement ahead of the national side's scheduled five-match tour to England in June. 'It's been 14 years since I first wore the baggy blue in Test cricket. Honestly, I never imagined the journey this format would take me on. It's tested me, shaped me, and taught me lessons I'll carry for life,' Kohli wrote on his Instagram handle. Kohli ended the posted with '#269, signing off'. The 36-year-old Kohli brought down the curtains on a prolific red-ball career, spanning 14 years and 123 Tests. The Delhi batter made his Test debut against the West Indies on June 20, 2011, in Kingston. Kohli had since gone on to become India's most successful batter in the previous decade between 2010 and 2019. Kohli was the third-highest Test run-getter in the period, piling on 7202 runs at 54.97 average and 27 centuries, the most by any batter in the time. With 9230 runs in 210 innings, Kohli stands fourth on the all-time charts among Indian batters, only behind the legendary trio of Sachin Tendulkar (15,921), Rahul Dravid (13,265), and Sunil Gavaskar (10,122) with 9230 runs at a 46.85 average.
The Age
04-06-2025
- Politics
- The Age
‘Cover-up': How brief stopover turned into horror ordeal for passengers on Flight 149
On August 1, 1990, British Airways Flight 149, scheduled to fly from London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur via stops in Kuwait and Madras (now Chennai), was briefly delayed before take-off. 'Right at the end of the boarding period, our ground controller told me that there were additional passengers who had just checked in,' recalls Clive Earthy, the flight's cabin services director, one of 367 passengers and 18 crew on board. 'The passengers turned up and boarded the flight. They were a group of young, fit-looking men. They were all seated at the back of the aircraft.' The Boeing 747-136 finally took off just after 6pm. As soon as they landed in Kuwait, Earthy opened a door at the front of the plane to be greeted by a British military officer in full uniform. 'He said to me: 'You're very late, Flight 149, I've come to meet some people from London and it's very important I get them off quickly now.' All those men were escorted off the aircraft. Instead of going down the arrivals channel into customs and immigration, the officer took them down some side steps and disappeared. 'I thought that was most peculiar. But I didn't put two and two together for a long, long time.' Flight 149 never made it out of Kuwait. While the plane was in the air, unbeknown to the passengers and crew, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces had invaded Kuwait after months of build-up on the border and were making rapid progress towards the airport. For the civilians on board, their flight into a war zone was the start of a 35-year tale of mistreatment and government cover-ups, which is the subject of a gripping and beautifully made new documentary, Flight 149: Hostage of War. The story remains unresolved: more than 100 (at the time of writing) of the survivors are suing the British government and British Airways for knowingly putting them in harm's way. 'Personally, I don't want money,' Earthy says. 'What I do want is an apology.' From boarding gate to battleground While the plane waited on the tarmac in Kuwait, another passenger, 12-year-old Jennifer Chappell, heading to Madras with her brother and parents, got her first inkling that something was wrong. 'The cleaners could not get off the plane fast enough,' she recalls. 'I looked out of the window and saw fighter planes flying very low, with what I thought were things falling off them.' Moments later, the bombs went off. Kuwaiti soldiers ordered all passengers and crew off the plane into the airport. There they watched the fighting through the large plate-glass windows of the terminal building. 'You could see the planes dogfighting and the tanks rolling over the horizon,' Chappell says. 'The crew had to tell some of the adults to stand back from the windows'. The Iraqis seized the airport. Chappell and her family were transferred, along with several other guests, into a series of facilities where they were held prisoner as Hussein's 'honoured guests', during the build-up to the first Gulf War. Initial media reports portrayed their stay as a kind of extended holiday in the sun. The reality was much harsher. The captives were released after five months, apart from one Kuwaiti who was shot trying to escape, after a concerted campaign for their release by British and US officials as well as a surprising parade of celebrities including Edward Heath, Sir Richard Branson, Reverend Jesse Jackson and Muhammad Ali. But during their time as 'guests', the prisoners, not just those on that flight, were variously used as human shields, kept hungry, paraded on TV and subjected to mock executions. Possibly the most famous image of the time was of five-year-old Stuart Lockwood with Saddam Hussein. Lockwood was not on board the plane but lived in Kuwait – his father was in the oil industry. Today Lockwood says, 'I was shielded, completely unaware of the gravity of the events unfolding around me. However, when I stood next to him, surrounded by guards, TV cameras and everyone else who were also being held as human shields, I knew instinctively that this situation was important. This surreal chapter from my early childhood remains a profound and formative part of who I am.' Meanwhile, Jennifer Chappell says, 'I've never recovered. I was diagnosed with PTSD at 15. I've suffered with depression and anxiety my whole life, emotionally unstable personality disorder, which has led to numerous suicide attempts. I've never been able to hold anything down or settle down. I've lived my life on benefits. At 12 years old, I was a straight-A student at boarding school.' One of them, Charlie Kristiansson – a steward on the flight – says an Iraqi soldier separated him from the other hostages and raped him. 'I feel proud to have survived,' Kristiansson says. 'We survived inhumane conditions. I saw a 10-year-old girl chased by Iraqi soldiers jump to her death. Having witnessed that, and after what happened to me personally, which was horrible, you have to recalibrate and reconfigure yourself.' He recently switched nationality to Luxembourg, part of the process of exorcising his demons from that time. For Kristiansson and Chappell – like Earthy and the other souls aboard Flight 149 – captivity marked the beginning of a nightmare that has lasted 35 years. Throughout that time their account has been repeatedly denied by British Airways and successive governments, even as new evidence has steadily corroborated their story. Last July it was announced that about a hundred survivors are suing British Airways and the British government, believing their civilian flight was deliberately endangered to enable a covert intelligence-gathering mission. As the infected blood and Post Office scandals have shown, such betrayals are far from history. The controversy hinges on the extent to which British Airways and the government were aware of the rapidly developing situation on the ground in Kuwait. And if they knew about the Iraqi invasion, why was a British civilian aircraft allowed to land? Flight 149 was the only plane to land in Kuwait in the small hours of the morning on August 2. At the time, British Airways and the government claimed not to have been aware of how fast the invasion had taken place. In a now-infamous statement in parliament on September 6, 1990, Margaret Thatcher said: 'The British Airways flight landed, its passengers disembarked, and the crew handed over to a successor crew and went to their hotels. All that took place before the invasion; the invasion was later.' Subsequent governments repeated this claim, despite testimony from passengers and crew such as Chappell, who witnessed gunfire from the plane. It also contradicted the timeline set out in Thatcher's own memoir The Downing Street Years. A long road to accountability A major breakthrough came in 2021 when documents released under the 30-year rule (the period after which most government records are transferred to the National Archives and made available to the public) revealed that the Kuwaiti ambassador had rung the Foreign Office at midnight, when the plane was in the air, to warn that the invasion had begun. The information was passed on to Downing Street, MI6, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence, but not British Airways. Liz Truss, the foreign secretary in 2021, apologised for the deceit. 'This failure was unacceptable,' Truss said in a written statement. 'I apologise to the House for this, and I express my deepest sympathy to those who were detained and mistreated.' When it came to why British Airways was not informed, one scapegoat was Anthony Paice – the MI6 station chief in Kuwait, working undercover as aviation security at the embassy. He was accused of failing to warn the airline of the risks. Some reports even suggested that he and his service were complicit in the clandestine operation – a claim he denies. 'Somebody should come up with an apology … British Airways had been warned and took no notice of the warning, and the British government was also warned and also took no action.' Anthony Paice, former MI6 station officer 'In subsequent years, there were press reports that claimed I was responsible for telling British Airways it was safe to fly through [Kuwait], where in fact I advised them exactly the opposite,' he says. 'I had to live with this because I had signed the Official Secrets Act, so my only comment could be 'no comment'.' It was only in 2019 that his 'worm turned' and he decided to tell the truth. In 2022, he published a book about his story, Overkill or Under-kill, which he says has 'never been disputed' by MI6 or any other department. 'I thought, damn it all, we're a long time after the events [of Flight 149] and I'm still being blamed for something I had nothing to do with,' he says. As with the captives, living in the shadow of so much deceit has taken a personal toll. 'It made me a difficult person to live with,' he says. 'You are totally frustrated. But I'm happy with my account. People know the truth. My only concern is to get compensation for those people who were wronged. It caused me an enormous amount of anger and it makes me feel all the more sore about other instances of governments not owning up, apologising and doing the right thing. The Post Office scandal is a good case in point. Another, much further back, is the squaddies who were exposed to radiation during our nuclear tests in the Pacific.' Given that the government of the time admitted it knew about the invasion earlier than it claimed, the question remains: why was the flight allowed to go ahead? Many believe the answer lies with the young men who boarded at the last minute. Paice is now 'convinced' that a 'military intelligence exploitation of British Airways Flight 149 did take place, despite repeated official denials'. He says: 'Somebody should come up with an apology for not having accepted that something was going on on the aeroplane, and that that was responsible for the discomfort experienced by nearly 400 people, which was quite unnecessary. British Airways had been warned and took no notice of the warning, and the British government was also warned and also took no action, as it could have done. Both organisations are culpable.' Paice's account aligned with the version of events being pieced together by Kiwi journalist Stephen Davis, a former member of The Sunday Times' Insight team and The Independent on Sunday, who was writing a book about Flight 149. The Secret History of Flight 149 was published in 2021 – the same year Liz Truss admitted the government had covered up the true timeline. Much of the legal case against British Airways and the government now rests on Davis' reporting, which took nearly 35 years to complete. He was alerted that all was not as it seemed, almost as soon as the invasion took place. Like other journalists, Davis – then on the news desk at The Independent on Sunday – was fed the official line that the hostages were enjoying 'an extended holiday'. 'Ironically enough, it was true for about three days,' he says. 'The Iraqis were astonished they had been gifted this British Airways plane with all these people. The invasion was pretty disorganised.' It was not long before he was tipped off that something was amiss. 'I'd done a lot of work reporting on special forces and intelligence services, and I got a call from a contact saying, 'what they're saying about this plane isn't right, you should look into it',' he says. 'That was the start of an epic battle, which has taken more than half my life.' 'Initially it was a cock-up. Everything that's happened since has been the most blatant cover-up.' Stephen Davis, author of The Secret History of Flight 149 'The Increment' Davis' version of events is that, as the threat of Iraqi invasion loomed, intelligence services cobbled together a last-minute plan to get a group of operators into Kuwait discreetly. He believes this was a group known as 'The Increment', more recently known as E Squadron, a secretive British paramilitary group mostly composed of ex-servicemen who work closely with the intelligence services. Davis believes their airfares were paid by a military account and that BA were aware of the operation, which was intended to activate an underground intelligence network during the invasion. 'The initial briefing was predicated on the fact that when the Iraqis invaded, the Kuwait military would hold out for three to five days,' he says. 'This team would fly on the plane, get off, go to their assigned positions, the plane would fly on and nobody would be the wiser. What actually happened was the Kuwaiti military collapsed like a pack of cards. The tanks reached the airport in five hours. 'So initially it was a cock-up. Everything that's happened since has been the most blatant cover-up. A group of guys boarded the plane while it was delayed at Heathrow, got on at the front and walked through the plane to the back. They were seen by dozens of people. Yet British Airways maintains to this day that no group boarded the plane due to the delay.' A key figure in Davis' enquiries was Lawrence O'Toole, the manager of British Airways in Kuwait. It was O'Toole who went to be briefed by Tony Paice on whether it was appropriate to proceed with the flight. 'British Airways have always maintained they were told it was safe to fly,' Davis says. 'When Liz Truss finally made her statement it completely shot that down.' Paice had actually warned that if a plane went through Kuwait at that time it would get into trouble. 'Further to that, I discovered his wife and child had just come from Switzerland,' Davis adds. 'I tracked down his PA, who was sitting in the office when O'Toole came back from the briefing. He was anxious and told his PA, 'get my wife and kid out on the next flight'. That is not a man who has just been told that nothing is about to happen.' During disclosure to US lawyers over a comparable claim in the US, British Airways admitted that O'Toole knew of the invasion when he was 'awakened by the sound of tanks and gunfire' at 4am, 15 minutes before the plane landed and when it had not yet entered Kuwaiti airspace and could have been diverted, potentially to Bahrain. But it insisted he was powerless to help. 'Laurie O'Toole could not have turned the aircraft back,' BA said at the time. 'He was aware of military movement. He tried repeatedly to contact airport staff and the embassy but could not raise either.' Davis believes both the government and British Airways are cautious about admitting culpability, fearing the financial costs as well as reputational damage. In 1995, a French court ordered BA to pay at least £3 million ($15.4 million today) in damages to 61 French nationals on board, ruling the airline had exposed passengers to undue danger by stopping in Kuwait. In 2021, another French court awarded £1.1 million to seven additional passengers. In the mid-'90s BA settled claims from US passengers out of court, requiring them to sign non-disclosure agreements. In a 2024 statement, British Airways said: 'Our hearts go out to all those caught up in this shocking act of war 34 years ago, who had to endure a truly horrendous experience. UK government records released in 2021 confirmed British Airways was not warned about the invasion.' Stephen Davis says, 'Liz Truss' statement to the House said: 'On August 1, the British embassy in Kuwait told the local British Airways office that while flights on August 1 should be safe, subsequent flights were inadvisable.' That is a warning, obviously: BA149 was due to arrive on August 2. BA just ignored that part of the statement and focused on the part that they did not get a call after the invasion had started.' The Ministry of Defence, meanwhile, has previously referred to earlier statements in the House of Commons. 'In 2007 the UK government clearly confirmed in parliament that the government in 1990 did not exploit the flight in any way for military personnel.' A source reiterated to The London Telegraph that 'no military personnel were on board or deployed on BA149 on August 2, 1990″. It echoes a denial by then-British prime minister John Major in 1993, who responded to letters from Labour minister John Prescott by denying that there were 'military personnel' on the plane and refusing to set up an inquiry. Davis believes this is a verbal 'sleight of hand', as the Increment isn't technically military. In a footnote in the government's defence it says it cannot rule out that there were 'military intelligence' people on the plane 'by coincidence'. A turning point The new documentary is directed by Jenny Ash, who first encountered the story eight years ago while interviewing Richard Branson. When asked what he was proudest of, Branson didn't mention ballooning or his business empire but his role in helping to free the hostages. For Ash, the Flight 149 story is vital not only because of its devastating human toll but because it marked a turning point in history. The film highlights the often-overlooked destruction of Kuwait during the Gulf War – and the profound shift in relations between the West and the Middle East that followed. Loading 'It's four months when the world completely changed,' she says. 'Up to this point, the Americans are calling Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter. Both Britain and the US were totally in bed with Saddam Hussein. It all imploded when he invaded Kuwait. It's the beginning of everything; 9/11, all of it. And these poor people were caught in the middle of it and spent 30 years being told it never happened.' Matthew Jury, the lawyer representing more than 100 claimants suing the government and British Airways, believes that, based on what he has seen, this is another in the seeming 'lineage' of British government cover-ups. 'There's an abundance of material pointing to BA and the government being culpable for the harm the passengers and crew have suffered, yet they continue to deny it. We hope this litigation will allow the truth to be revealed and those responsible to be held to account.' No dates have been set but Jury hopes to have a trial before the end of 2026. For the victims, it cannot come soon enough. 'We'd have understood that governments sometimes have a choice between shit decision and another shit decision,' says Jennifer Chappell. 'We get that. But the utter disrespect to keep lying. The [soldiers] on the plane have spoken about it. We have their testimony. Why are the authorities still lying about it? Have the guts to stand up and say, 'this is what we did, we're sorry you got caught in the crossfire and we're going to try to make it right'. 'That was all they had to do. Instead, they've lied and lied and lied. They've gaslit us, in modern parlance, for 35 years. I want to see our names cleared. We haven't made it up. This stuff happened and it ruined our lives, and they were responsible – the British government for using a commercial flight as a de facto military transport, and British Airways for putting 368 passengers and 36 of their own staff at risk.' The 747 was eventually blown up. Subsequent wars in the Middle East have eclipsed the first Gulf War. For those caught up in Flight 149 – and those who have made it their mission to help them – the search for the truth goes on.
