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 ...
Serious jail time is in order.
The black helicopter crowd just don't give up, do they?
Someone needs to tell Catherine Mayo that we live in a REPUBLIC (not a democracy).
ike old Cathie.>>>>
Cathie or Cathay?
I knew Cathie. Fine girl she was.
nice pic
I can't decide if it looks like a cracked out Gidget
OR
a former man, note the Adam's apple
Indeed, there is clearly more here than meets the eye.
The woman blamed for forcing a flight to divert to Boston will stay in jail at least for a week.
Wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt, socks but no shoes, Catherine Mayo appeared in Boston federal court today. She was ordered held until a detention and probable cause hearing next Thursday. Her public defender says Mayo has "some very serious mental health problems."
Mayo's son says the Vermont resident is a peace activist who'd been in Pakistan since March and often went there to visit a pen-pal who's not allowed into the U.S. A Pakistani newspaper has published columns she wrote, including one critical of President Bush.
In court papers filed by an FBI agent, Mayo is described as acting oddly on the plane, at one point making a reference that the captain took to mean al-Qaida. The papers say when she urinated on the cabin floor, he ordered her restrained.
The Paki in WV Tri-State has not been arrested. No name yet. She was headed to Charlotte, NC, then Detroit(?). No telling for sure if Detroit was her final destination at this juncture. Sometimes it is possible to exchange for a different final, although an international change would likely entail re-screening.
All that I am sure of is that security is being probed.
This woman is WAY more than claustrophobic.
She also wrote in a note and said to flight attendants that she had been in a country illegally, and later said she had photographs of Pakistan.
"She stated that the photographs would be awful, and she indicated that they related to the people that she had been with in the mountains of Pakistan," the affidavit said.
Flight attendants summoned the captain, who spoke to Mayo. During the conversation, she made reference to there being "six steps to building some unspecified thing."
"She made reference to being with people associated with two words. 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 of a flight in the United Arab Emirates," according to the affidavit.
The captain and purser both believed that she was referring to al-Qaida, Choldin wrote.
here is attempt number 2
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003206484_webwva17.html
"The bomb squad is on site and the woman is being interviewed by the FBI," Amy von Walter said.
A machine security checkpoint screeners use to test for explosives registered positive, and a canine team also got a positive hit, von Walter said.
Airport manager Larry Salyers said the bottles would be moved by robot to a remote area of the airport where officials would attempt to detonate them. National Guard and State Police explosive experts will conduct chemical field tests to determine what's inside them, he said.
Salyers said he was told the woman was 28-year-old native of Pakistan who had moved to Huntington from Jackson, Mich. He did not know how long she had lived in Huntington.
Ping to an historic freeper discovery thread. Great job, all.
Gee, does that make me a profiler?
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Good example of someone who believes her life peaked in the 60's. It's pretty sad.
If I had been on the plane with her, though, I doubt I'd have as much sympathy.
Why wasn't her passport cofiscated...kicked off a previous flight...that should be lifelong suspension of ever traveling in MHO and her name should be in the same terrorist watch database.
We now have a name on the little Mayo:
"Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said. The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685480/posts
Think we ought to warn DU?
Why would we be offended? It's hard to deny. The people here are absolutely crazy.
I claim Massachusetts as having the most heavily populated bunch of moonbats anywhere on earth! Beam me up Scottie!
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