Woman In Logan Airport Incident Identified

(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.

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...

I think your comments make a great deal of sense - this woman may well turn out to have been "crazy as a fox" in trying to get out of a deadly situation.... though if that were the case I'm not sure why she couldn't just approach one of the fight attendants privately, unless she thought she were being watched too closely...... I sure hope that every aspect of this episode is exhaustively investigated and analyzed, and not simply written off as "crazy person."

btw, this item strikes me as very worrisome if accurate:

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."

IF THIS MEANS THEY 'SUMMONED' THE CAPTAIN OUT OF THE COCKPIT AND INTO THE PASSENGER CABIN THEN THAT WOULD SEEM TO BE VERY DISTURBING IN TERMS OF PROPER SECURITY PROTOCOLS. Now if it just means they 'consulted' the Captain via intercomm that would be much better - but then I don't know where the reporter would get the idea to use the word 'summoned' which implies physical arrival to a scene. I'd understood that after 9/11 there were supposed to be much more secure cockpit doors and that said door was supposed to remain secured from before takeoff until after landing. Think about the implications if a terrorist can stage a ruse with such a 'crazy' passenger as a way to expose the cockpit. I thought this was a huge no-no after 9/11, to allow any of the flight crew to open that cockpit door. Does this "flight attendants summoned the captain" mean that security is still more lax than we'd been led to believe?

Yes, she is wildly ignorant - to Ben Franklin and many of the founding generation, "democracy" was a term of abuse, describing mob rule and demagogic frenzy (much like our current Demagogic Party, come to think of it). Franklin and nearly everyone of that generation were proud to establish a REPUBLIC, far from the "pure democracy" that this Mayo-for-brains is raving about. She really is a nitwit, whether or not she proves to be clinically insane....

When the captain came out,

These words sent shivers through me! It is because of freaks like this woman that 'profiling' is not recommended to screeners. Apparently this pilot succombed to "profiling" [ie, she was a crazy American, and therefore could not be a Jihadist] and broke the established procedure, or offered himself as a potential hostage, if the crew re-secured the flight cabin door after his exit from there.

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