Posted on 08/17/2006 1:31:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid'
By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago
A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.
Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
She was dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt, black pants and socks without shoes for the hearing and was ordered held pending a detention and probable cause hearing next Thursday.
Her attorney, federal public defender Page Kelley, said Mayo was "just barely lucid" when they spoke. "She's got some very serious mental health problems."
U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said he hoped to learn more about Mayo's mental state before the next court appearance. "We believe it's important during that time period to have a doctor examine her," he said.
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.
"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody's a little paranoid," the son said.
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I'd bill her for the F15's fuels and salary.
Very interesting. A bit more complex than a simple case of claustrophobia...
peace activist=wacky leftard.
Whoa... interesting catch!
Check out #17!
She needs to be on the no-fly list.
"much more going on here than I originally thought also..."
Absolutely. A lot of info of interest compiled here also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685257/posts
That person was named Katherine Mayo. Hard to keep the Mayo's straight. Could be related though.
You and others do a diservice to FR and other such sites indentifying fake photos by crying wolf over nothing.
That's one way to get the media to ignore or even discredit the legitimate finds.
The DUmmies forever smeared the REAL photo of Jane Fonda with John Kerry at an anti-war protest by showing people the gag article cobbled from some other photos. The media (including Drudge) still cite the hoax image and do little to clarrify that there was a genuine image.
Peace activist, raving lunatic, same dif.
There are a LOT of references out there to a "Catherine Mayo" as having been the author in question, but perhaps that's just a matter of them translating the name back and forth from a foreign language.
LOL. I thought of Tea Leone in "Spanglish" myself...
Do a Google with the exact phrase "Cathy Mayo is an American journalist based in Pakistan". There will be a site that connects to Pakistani men looking for women. Just sayin'
" Ok,perhaps I'm now overly cynical, but does the accompanying picture of the couple embracing look a like a poor cut-and-paste job to anyone else? "
Is that supposed to be a 60 year old woman the young man is embracing ?
Islam does that to people.
I've already done that search looking for her other screeds... didn't see any such site though.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685257/posts?page=189#189
I think it was through one of the Pakistanidefenseforum.com links. Sorry, I did not hit the link.
She's probably related to Cindy Sheehan. Peace activists are mindless anyway, lol.
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