Flight passengers describe hours of bizarre behavior (more details)

Washington Times ^ | August 18, 2006 | Audrey Hudson

[Mount Athos]

A self-described peace activist responsible for the diversion of a London-to-Washington flight Wednesday acted bizarrely for hours, made references to al Qaeda and hijack training flights, and was restrained by two passengers after she urinated in the aisle.

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, a Vermont woman who also lives part time in Pakistan, was charged yesterday in federal court with interfering with a flight crew.

United Flight 923 was forced to make an emergency landing at Boston's Logan International Airport under escort by two military jets.

"She's got some very serious mental health problems," said Page Kelley, Mrs. Mayo's attorney, who described her client as "just barely lucid."

According to an affidavit and passenger accounts, Mrs. Mayo began pacing the plane from the front to aft lavatory and asked a flight attendant, "Is this a training flight for United Flight 93?" -- the flight hijacked on September 11, 2001, that crashed into a Pennsylvania farm field.

Mrs. Mayo demanded to speak with an air marshal, saying the contents of her bag would be of interest. Her bag contained a screwdriver, body lotion, several cigarette lighters and a bottle of water. The affidavit did not say how she smuggled the items on board, despite being screened twice at London's Heathrow Airport.

When confronted by the captain, Mrs. Mayo made a reference to bomb assembly, saying, "There are six steps to building some unspecified thing."

"She made reference to being with people associated with two words," the affidavit said. "She stated that she could not say what the two words were because the last time that she had said the two words she had been kicked off a flight in the United Arab Emirates."

[Cincinatus]

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, a Vermont woman

A Howard Dean supporter, no doubt....

[ElkGroveDan]

Savage was hilarious going over this yesterday.

[bwteim]

"she urinated in the aisle."

I nominate her for Dem veep candidate.

[lula]

LOL!!!

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like a carefully constructed game to me. It leads me to think she's not crazy, just another idiot.

[beyond the sea]

Flight passengers describe hours of bizarre behavior

....... speaking of bizarre behavior where is Janet Reno these says?

[tx_eggman]

About ten years in the slammer ought to clear up her thought process

[vimto]

I know the FReepers don't like this but for several reason I suspect this woman is quite psychotic and not responsible for her actions.

I am ready and willing to get blasted for this opinion.

[lovecraft]

I could hear myself now if I were on that plane:

"Will somebody please knock dis crazy biotch out??!!"

[My2Cents]

A self-described peace activist

More evidence that liberalism is a mental disease.

[bigbob]

maybe she'd been on the Sheehan liquid diet "fast"

[SmithL]

A self-described peaceP!$$ activist ...

Fixed!

[My2Cents]

I nominate her for Dem veep candidate.

No, UN ambassador.

[San Jacinto]

"She's got some very serious mental health problems," said Page Kelley, Mrs. Mayo's attorney, who described her client as "just barely lucid."

Bull!!! Just a lame excuse. That description fits every kerry supporter and dim voter in the country!! Send her to prison! STAT!!!

[GreenAccord]

"She made reference to being with people associated with two words,..."

• La Raza?
• Blue Staters?
• Howard Dean?
• Heinz Ketchup?
• Al Jezeera?
• Code Pink?

Puzzling. I wonder who she meant?

[Frank_2001]

"She's got some very serious mental health problems"

In other words, SHE'S A LIBERAL;)

She needs a stay in the nuthouse, but the lefties shut 'em all down a few years ago...oh the irony......

Maybe Mother Cindy can counsel her;)

[TexasCajun]

No Sky Marshall on the London to Washington flight?

...especially after the current events.

The captain ordered her restrained, and the passengers and a flight attendant tackled her and placed her hands in plastic cuffs.

[Suzy Quzy]

Liberalism is the mental disease that she suffers from.

[VOA]

Sounds like a carefully constructed game to me.

Now the Jihadis know just how much Bravo Sierra flight crews will put
up with before actually restraining someone being or acting like a nut.

And maybe got a guage of how much of a row they'd have to create
to divert attention so that a bombbuilder might have more time to
do his/her deed while the flight-crew (and passengers) are distracted.

Not saying she was actually doing this in concert with anyone.
But now the future-bombers just have to read the court record and
who knows...maybe a few of them were on the plane observing.
(a la' the James Wood story about his pre-9-11 Boston-LA flight)