Woman In Logan Airport Incident Identified

CBS 4 Boston ^ | 8/17/06

[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...

[CougarGA7]

Maybe the two words were HEAD ON and that commercial finally made her crack.

Honestly, if someone mentioned those two words on an airplane I'd throw him/her off myself.

[CindyDawg]

JMO but I think you are only have right. They had no choice.

[BurbankKarl]

Dubai is the home of Emirates Airlines, which is the up and coming hub....wait til they get those A380s full of jihadists.

[from occupied ga]

I don't like captains coming out.

He's gay?

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. Me too. You can always count on Freepers to read a post literally and see the funny side:').

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

Now isn't that the truth.

[CindyDawg]

Groan. You too? LOL

[acoulterfan]

This woman will not get more than probation and MAYBE some counseling!! Arghhhh!

[txrangerette]

I agree she is a serious mental case.

She has taken her sickness and bumped it over into the field of national security "politics of hate".

Reminds me of Cindy Sheehan, and others if I thought longer about it.

I also agree she might be dangerous. I don't know. But I hope she's on every list there is of people to watch out for, and that her activities she claims in Pakistan are investigated.

And as others have mentioned, whether any passengers on that flight could have been in cahoots with her in some plan that went wrong.

[shhrubbery!]

OK, so she claims she was in Pindi on the same day Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in Pindi?

I'm not sure what you're getting at with that. Is there anything in it, other than that she might have been there?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's possible she's more than just a nut or a fabulist who is, at bottom (so to speak), harmless.

But given her rantings, I think she's so unstable, it's not likely Al Qaeda would use her as a real player in a terrorist plot, a la the protagonist in The Little Drummer Girl.

[Aquinasfan]

The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism they cannot mention peace

Doo doo doo doo...

[travlnmn41]

Typical ugly female Dem. No amount of makeup can help this hideous she-man. Is that an Adam's apple I see?

[freeperfromnj]

But given her rantings, I think she's so unstable, it's not likely Al Qaeda would use her as a real player in a terrorist plot

If they're willing to use their wife and baby, why not a useful idiot who believes in their cause (unstable though she may be)?

[trisham]

Cool. Thanks.

[shhrubbery!]

If they're willing to use their wife and baby, why not a useful idiot who believes in their cause (unstable though she may be)?

True, but OTOH this woman is such a babbler, on so many websites, I think Al Qaeda would've found her a security risk to their operations.

[Krodg]

They were hippy-dippy things.

Sorry for the off topic comment, but every time I see that term I think about the 'Dharma and Greg' show. "She's a hippy-dippy flower child out to save the world...he's conservative." That's not the exact wording, but close.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

OK, so she claims she was in Pindi on the same day Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in Pindi?

It is a rather odd coincidence. Pindi is known for having a LOT of AQ connections. Maybe she was there on that day, maybe not. Maybe she just blows a lot of smokescreen, maybe she flew from Dubai to a US bound connection in London with more than 1 lighter by mistake. Who knows?

[trisham]

I think that's the most detailed article I've yet seen.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

My own words yesterday predicted we would finally get those conflicting reports clarified, and that the passengers would talk.

And exactly where in the MSM and government pressers did you find out that this woman was based in Pakistan? One would be led to ASSUME that she was simply returning home to Braintree, VT after a weekend in London. FR broke her Paki connection, and now the MSM (Fox anyway) is looking into it.

[shhrubbery!]

She's of the perfect age to have been a 'Flower Child' that probably spent a month or 2 at Hyatt & Ashberry back in the late 60's.

Don't know if she spent any time in Haight-Ashbury, but she proudly proclaims herself "a child of the '60s" in one of her internet rants. (Don't remember which one -- FReepers are coming up with so many, my head is spinning.)

The Flower Children of the '60s are truly the most destructive generation America has ever produced, as David Horowitz and Peter Collier wrote presciently back in the '80s.