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Woman In Logan Airport Incident Identified
CBS 4 Boston ^ | 8/17/06

Posted on 08/17/2006 8:08:11 AM PDT by shhrubbery!

(CBS4) BOSTON Criminal charges could be filed Thursday against a Vermont woman who caused a disturbance aboard a London-to-Virginia jet that was diverted to Logan Airport.

59-year-old Catherine Mayo is being held by federal authorities in Boston.

Investigators say she was a claustrophobic passenger who became upset and interfered with the flight crew on United Airlines flight 923 Wednesday morning. The pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed the plane at Logan. The Boeing 767 was escorted by two F-15 jets based out of Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.

Passengers say Mayo paced the aisles and peppered her incoherent mutterings with the word "Pakistan." They said two plainclothes men on board and flight attendants tackled the woman. She was handcuffed while the flight was diverted.

After a day filled with conflicting reports about what she was carrying, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed Mayo had a screwdriver, lighters and matches when she was subdued...

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs4boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; catherinemayo; flight923; heathrow; iad; lhr; matches; mayo; pakistan; screwdriver
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To: Froufrou
an FBI spokeswoman confirmed Mayo had a screwdriver, lighters and matches when she was subdued

OK, what I want to know is, how in the world did she get this stuff past security? Especially on an international flight? Something smells here...

201 posted on 08/17/2006 11:21:34 AM PDT by boughtwithaprice
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To: retrokitten

I don't like captains coming out.


202 posted on 08/17/2006 11:23:23 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: freeperfromnj
Hello, what's all this then...

real terrorist:

fake killer:

bizzarro.
203 posted on 08/17/2006 11:24:44 AM PDT by evets (08-22-06)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
I don't know if opening the cockpit door is a particularly good idea.

He was the one taking up all the time in the john.

204 posted on 08/17/2006 11:25:00 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: CougarGA7

Thailand?


205 posted on 08/17/2006 11:25:39 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: shhrubbery!

She was in Pindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003:
AN AMERICAN IN PAKISTAN: In Pindi on March 1

Catherine Mayo

From an entry dated Mar 11 2003, 04:23 PM
under the screenname Badhshah

Pindi is located at http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/6/Pindi.html


206 posted on 08/17/2006 11:26:26 AM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: evets

LOL


207 posted on 08/17/2006 11:26:34 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: boughtwithaprice; RSmithOpt

Good question! I bet this woman is the walking dead. I don't think her boyfriend will like this a bit. OTOH, seriously: she could have a brain tumor or seizure disorder or maybe had a stroke.


208 posted on 08/17/2006 11:26:40 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: shhrubbery!
Cathy Mayo is an [anti-]American journalist based in Pakistan

"Whoa Nelly!" < /Keith Jackson voice>

209 posted on 08/17/2006 11:26:49 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: shhrubbery!

Witnesses:')


210 posted on 08/17/2006 11:27:02 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Tie-land?


211 posted on 08/17/2006 11:27:13 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: CindyDawg

Me either. They probably shouldn't come out unless there is an absolute, immediate threat to passenger's lives. Even still, at that point what could he/she do? We don't need terrorists acting like crazy crackheads peeing on the floor to lure the captain out and then hijacking the plane.


212 posted on 08/17/2006 11:27:16 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: shhrubbery!

Pakistan boyfriend + female convert to Islam = trouble

lonely western, low IQ, female, is seduced into Islam = an easy way to bypass the preflight security....


213 posted on 08/17/2006 11:28:18 AM PDT by thinking
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To: retrokitten
Initial reports said that it was 2-3 people who were in some kind of confrontation with the flight crew.

I forgot about that. Could be another of those early issued statements that is actually true.

214 posted on 08/17/2006 11:28:36 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Froufrou

No, not like a geodome. Shaped more like a cupcake. Actually hard to describe but you can find pictures and floorplans(!) on the web.

They're supposed to be very energy efficient and strong but I guess that would describe geodomes as well.


215 posted on 08/17/2006 11:29:00 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: freeperfromnj

Most of it seems to be true, but I didn't catch any mention of her saying something about al Qaida or having it written down in a note or the like... Just that she kept muttering the word "Pakistan".


216 posted on 08/17/2006 11:29:28 AM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: retrokitten

Even with threats to life they have got to let the cabin staff handle it. We need them to get the plane safely down.


217 posted on 08/17/2006 11:29:38 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: andy58-in-nh

What a nutjob!

Was there a full moon this week?


218 posted on 08/17/2006 11:30:22 AM PDT by Palladin (Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
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To: txrangerette

See post #183. That article has a lot of good info.


219 posted on 08/17/2006 11:30:31 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: txrangerette

Oops! I meant post #188


220 posted on 08/17/2006 11:31:26 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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