Posted on 01/14/2006 4:59:10 PM PST by KeyLargo
Stop The Plane And Kick Her Off
Sat, 14 Jan '06 Math Prof Wigs Out On United Flight
How would you react if a woman started screaming that "she had a baby named Jesus, she was impregnated by her uncle and President Bush was behind it all"?
And then started to strip and throw things at other people?
If we mentioned that this happened on an airplane in flight. would that make your decision any easier?
For the captain of United Airlines Flight 6664 from Eugene, OR to Denver, who had the bizarrely misbehaving woman as a passenger, the answer was simple enough: stop the plane and kick her off. So the United jet made an unscheduled landing in Salt Lake City, where the police took custody of one Bogdana Atanasova Georgieva.
Georgieva is a Bulgarian citizen living in Eugene, where she's a graduate student at the University of Oregon. According to a story in the Eugene Register-Guard, she's quite the math and science whiz, working on a master's degree in Physics to go with her PhD and several other degrees, all earned in various Oregon schools.
She is -- or was -- an assistant professor of mathematics at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, as well. We say "or was" because she's been purged from the current math department directory on the web, but she still appears in the Google cache. Every page of a dozen or so that referred to her has been sanitized.
A web page still exists at U of Oregon, which has a picture (the one with this article) and descriptions of her research into things like the "Generalized Variational Principle of Herglotz". Whatever that is.
She sure is bright, but is she nuts? Professionals at the University of Utah hospital are studying that question right now, as Georgieva was taken there for evaluation.
One thing's for sure: she disrupted Flight 6664. She began by tussling with an adjacent passenger for a bottle of water. Then she assaulted the passenger, who had asked flight attendants for assistance moving to another seat. Then she began yelling about her baby Jesus, her diddling uncle, etc., and then, during the Salt Lake City landing, she broke loose and allegedly ran towards the cockpit.
She was thwarted by flight attendants, and then tackled by other passengers, who held her for the police. *Still* she got away again, uttering a bomb threat, before being caught and caged.
She has been charged with one felony count of Interfering With a Flight Crew by the Salt Lake City US Attorney's office.
When, of course, that mental evaluation is done.
From my experience hanging out in Evans Hall back at UC Berkeley, an awful lot of mathemeticians live within commuting distance of Crazyville.
I wonder what is her DU screen name?
Yep. Sure does. LOL
Thereeeeza Heinz-Kerry's younger sister?
A nutcase she is. I wonder if air rage is happening more often?
uh huh. and not surprisingly, Bush did it.
Why stop the plane? Just kick her out and tell the police where to pick her up when she hits the ground.
Why stop?
OK heres a clue !
Flight 6664
The Number of the Beast plus 4?
Send her over to DU so she could be with her own kind.
Been the story ever since. No one will take the cockpit EVER again!
Combine her extreme anti-bush, lefty-lib rantings with 'removing her clothes' and you've got me convinced. I'd have gotten her off the plane as quickly as possible (perhaps even without a parachute) in order to protect the eyesight of my other passengers.
These things seem to be happening with more frequency. Perhaps it would pay the airlines to start carrying a strait jacket for these nuts. I am sure the passengers and the Attendents could have gotten her into one.
Looks nuts alright
sumdumbitch
Bogdana Atanasova Georgieva
She was impregnated by her uncle?
For some reason, considering her mental state, it was either a fabrication, or she was bragging.
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