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Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid' By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 16 minutes ago



BOSTON - 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.

The scare aboard United 923 came just a week after London authorities said they foiled a terror plot to blow up trans-Atlantic flights. As many as 17 people have been arrested in Pakistan in connection with the London terror plot, but federal officials have said they have no indications that Mayo had any links to terrorism.

The count against Mayo carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine.

Mayo's passport indicates she left Pakistan and entered the United Kingdom on Tuesday, according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Daniel Choldin filed in U.S. District Court in Boston.

In the affidavit, Choldin says flight attendants noticed Mayo about 90 minutes into the flight because she was pushing against the aircraft bulkhead. When the attendant told her to return to her seat, Mayo said she wanted to speak to an air marshal and made statements about knowing that people wanted to see what was in her bag.

FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz confirmed Thursday that authorities found a screwdriver and an unspecified number of cigarette lighters in her bag, items that are banned under new security regulations. Marcinkiewicz also confirmed that matches were found in Mayo's bag.

She also had a bottle of water, which did not appear to be supplied by the flight crew. It wasn't clear how the items made it through airport security, which has been significantly tightened since the terror plot arrests.

Later during the flight, according to the affidavit, Mayo asked a flight attendant: "Is this a training flight for United Flight 93?" The flight attendant didn't know if she made a mistake because the flight was actually Flight 923, or if she was referring to Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11.

She was "biting her fingers, rubbing her feet and in a constant state of movement. She appeared very agitated," the affidavit said.

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.

About 35 minutes later, when she tried to go to the bathroom, the flight attendants directed her to a different lavatory. Instead, she pulled down her pants and urinated on the floor, Choldin wrote in the affidavit, which was based on his interviews and those of other federal officials.

At that point, the captain ordered her restrained. Two male passengers helped a flight attendant tackle Mayo and restrain her in plastic cuffs.

The flight, with 182 passengers, landed safely at Logan Airport with the escort of two F-15 fighter jets.

(SUBS fourth graf "Her attorney ..." to correct partial quote

Mayo needs to be in a clinic . . . .

Nuts...

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

"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....Rolling Stones. LOL

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The Joker Wrote:
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> 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.

What a surprise.

NOT.

Just another nutjob from Vermont. I live in Vermont, and trust me, this state is _filled_ with addled basket cases like this. The local media reported tonite that this kook has been writing bizarre letters to local newspapers for years filled with justifications for the Sept. 11th attacks.

"Peace activist"?!? Only if "peace" is equated with surrender to extremist Islamists.

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Lol when I travel alone That is exactly the kind of person I end up sitting next to.

Bingo Wrote:
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> "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.
>
>

my bet is that the words were either "setlist whiners" or "Michael Cohl"

Gazza Wrote:
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> Bingo Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > "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.
> >
> >
>
> my bet is that the words were either "setlist
> whiners" or "Michael Cohl"


or perhaps, "Fan Club" and/or "theater shows"

:-D

Yeah, I saw this article. This is TYPICAL UNITED AIRLINES DRAMA QUEEN behaviour. They turn every little thing into a giant situation. So they had a nutty little aging hippie lady on board, they could have made it a non issue and realized she was a bit out of it BUT they have to be big show offs and show the whole world how on top of the "TERROR THREAT" they are (so on top off it that they lost 2 planes on 9/11). I quite flying them many years ago - pre 9/11 - when I used the word sh*t when speaking to one of their drama queen flight attendants and he flipped out and ran and got the head flight attendant. She was some 90 year old that coughed her way all the way up to my seat (Cut back to 6 packs a day Grandma) to lecture me about language. That was it - United is an effing freak show flying circus, screw them.....Oh, the 2 words? UNITED SUCKS......

It could be a psychotic reaction (delusions)

Where did you say she was from??? BRAIN TREE...? She fell down from one, I suppose. Hurt her brain really badly...

MicksBrain Wrote:
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> Yeah, I saw this article. This is TYPICAL UNITED
> AIRLINES DRAMA QUEEN behaviour. They turn every
> little thing into a giant situation. So they had a
> nutty little aging hippie lady on board, they
> could have made it a non issue and realized she
> was a bit out of it BUT they have to be big show
> offs and show the whole world how on top of the
> "TERROR THREAT" they are

Good lord, blame the airline?!?

That's right, MicksBrain, it's all United's fault that this nutty passenger, who had gotten on this flight direct from Pakistan, pulled down her pants, squatted and urinated in the aisle, after exhibiting two hours of bizarre behavior, and after having been discovered carrying banned liquids, cigarette lighters, matches and creams on board.

Yeah, that's it, it's _United's_ fault.

Sheesh.

I hope the BRAINTREE-lady is receiving treatment now... Or decides to go on a bus next time she wants to travel. Cuffed.

madmaxx Wrote:
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> Lol when I travel alone That is exactly the kind
> of person I end up sitting next to.


And when I travel alone, the person next to me always seems so scared and nervous.

Interesting thread headline.

When you see someone walking down the street wearing a Stones t-shirt you would quite reasonably automatically assume theyre a Stones fan

However, when they act like a fúckwit on a plane, piss in the aisle and get arrested, theyre merely "alleged" Stones fans!!!

Do these people get grouped in with the rest of those who are merely 'alleged' fans to some, because they question things like high ticket prices, ticket scams and conservative setlists? Enquiring minds need to know.

Especially in case I get "caught short" in the queue for the toilet en route to London tomorrow....it looks we have a reputation to uphold!

i'm just pleased she's not from Braintree, Essex
...she'd have had to kick off her white stilletos, then, to piss in the aisle.

I think she bought that shirt at a Goodwill store.....

This is what happens when you listen to Satanic Majesties too much!!!!

SD

i'd love to see Mayo's wished setlist for the autumn leg

2000 Light Years from Home would certainly be on it

I wonder is she related to that fruitcake who made an arse of herself at Fenway on opening night this time last year, and fell off the roof

I guess she'd dig a lot of sticky...

Gazza Wrote:
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> 2000 Light Years from Home would certainly be on
> it
>
> I wonder is she related to that fruitcake who made
> an arse of herself at Fenway on opening night this
> time last year, and fell off the roof

oh yes, she was the parachute woman then...

Mayo's setlist taking shape...

Gazza Wrote:
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> I wonder is she related to that fruitcake who made
> an arse of herself at Fenway on opening night this
> time last year, and fell off the roof


No, that "fruitcake" was some stoned 20 year old college kid, you'll know her when you see her, she's the one who can't walk properly anymore, since she absolutely trashed her ankles permanently when she fell. Pitiful.

highanddry Wrote:
>
> Good lord, blame the airline?!?
>
> That's right, MicksBrain, it's all United's fault
> that this nutty passenger, who had gotten on this
> flight direct from Pakistan, pulled down her
> pants, squatted and urinated in the aisle, after
> exhibiting two hours of bizarre behavior, and
> after having been discovered carrying banned
> liquids, cigarette lighters, matches and creams on
> board.
>
> Yeah, that's it, it's _United's_ fault.

Yo, highanddry, First, She didn't get on the flight "DIRECT FROM PAKISTAN" cause United doesn't fly into/out of PAKISTAN. You mean she Connected to UNITED flight 923 at Heathrow after flying in on a differnet flight/airline from Pakistan. let me ask you, if that Heathrow security is SO tipsy topsy how did this nut job ever make it through all that STEALTH JAMES BOND like security they have put in place there? Because it's just all a BIG SHOW my friend, don't buy into all the "horse and pony show" JIVE. I'm not BLAMING United Airlines for her being on, I'm saying United is a "DRAMA QUEEN" airline. You either make a big deal out of nothing ("STORM IN A TEA CUP" I believe they say in England, or "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING") or you know you have a slight problem that ISN'T LIFE THREATENING, ISN'T A LEGIT TERRORIST ATTACK READY TO HAPPEN and you handcuff the kooky lady to her seat and fly into Dulles airport (Outside Washington D C - orginal destination) AS PLANNED without all the hoopla of having 2 Airforce F-15 jets ESCORT you to a totally different Airport (Boston - Logan) Put ALL the bags out on the tarmac, bring in the sniffer dogs, get a lot of news time (even helicopter shots - WOW, must be serious if they got out the EYEWITNESS NEWS helicopter) DRAMA - like in a TOMMY CRUISE movie, NOT REAL.Nothing happened and nothing WAS GOING TO HAPPEN with a spaced out 59 year old woman but free publicity is free publicity and it doesn't matter if a whole Jumbo Jet full of people have to suffer so you can put on your little show. Remember, Richard Reid - the shoe bomber, was put up in a paid for by AA 4 star hotel near CDG airport in Paris and put on a plane the next day by American Airlines Security - that's HOW SHARP the airlines are (a REAL AL-QAEDA MEMBER/TERRORIST gets through hours of interigations by top notch airline/airport security only to be put on a flight the next day - now that's EAGLE EYE security, 3 months after 9/11 happened even). if he wasn't such a dumb sh*t himself (Go into the Bathroom to lite your shoes so fellow passengers don't see you and bring you down) another American Airlines plane would have gone down due to terrorism. How did he get on after hours of interrogation? They sure are sharp putting him in a "We're sorry" 4 star hotel (there's plenty of 2 stars near CDG that would have been fine). Don't "believe everything you see" and don't "slide across the surface of things" my friend, you'll be much better off (pull the curtain back and check out the WIZARD cause he's there, alive and well, doing his dirty work, STILL fooling TONS of people).....Oh, just a FYI kinda thing. They've known about liquid explosives and plans like this latest one since 1994 when they found a computer in MANILA full of terrorist plans that included exploding 12 Jumbo's over the Pacific Ocean doing EXACTLY what they were gonna do now. So no worries about liquids from 1994 to 2006? Why not, they actually killed a Japanese guy when they did a test run before they were caught with their commputer so it wasn't any PIPE DREAM, it was REAL and it did WORK. So explain the 12 year lag time to me cause I don't get it (me and Austin Powers flunked out of HOMELAND SECURITY terrorist high acheivers class unfortunately).....



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MicksBrain Wrote:

> Yo, highanddry, First, She didn't get on the
> flight "DIRECT FROM PAKISTAN" cause United doesn't
> fly into/out of PAKISTAN. You mean she Connected
> to UNITED flight 923 at Heathrow after flying in
> on a differnet flight/airline from Pakistan. let
> me ask you, if that Heathrow security is SO tipsy
> topsy how did this nut job ever make it through
> all that STEALTH JAMES BOND like security they
> have put in place there? Because it's just all a
> BIG SHOW my friend, don't buy into all the "horse
> and pony show" JIVE. I'm not BLAMING United
> Airlines for her being on, I'm saying United is a
> "DRAMA QUEEN" airline. You either make a big deal
> out of nothing ("STORM IN A TEA CUP" I believe
> they say in England, or "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING")
> or you know you have a slight problem that ISN'T
> LIFE THREATENING, ISN'T A LEGIT TERRORIST ATTACK
> READY TO HAPPEN and you handcuff the kooky lady to
> her seat and fly into Dulles airport (Outside
> Washington D C - orginal destination) AS PLANNED
> without all the hoopla of having 2 Airforce F-15
> jets ESCORT you to a totally different Airport
> (Boston - Logan) Put ALL the bags out on the
> tarmac, bring in the sniffer dogs, get a lot of
> news time (even helicopter shots - WOW, must be
> serious if they got out the EYEWITNESS NEWS
> helicopter) show how on top of it you are. Drama,
> my friend, DRAMA - like in a TOMMY CRUISE movie,
> NOT REAL.Nothing happened and nothing WAS GOING TO
> HAPPEN with a spaced out 59 year old woman but
> free publicity is free publicity and it doesn't
> matter if a whole Jumbo Jet full of people have to
> suffer so you can put on your little show.
> Remember, Richard Reid - the shoe bomber, was put
> up in a paid for by AA 4 star hotel near CDG
> airport in Paris and put on a plane the next day
> by American Airlines Security - that's HOW SHARP
> the airlines are (a REAL AL-QAEDA MEMBER/TERRORIST
> gets through hours of interigations by top notch
> airline/airport security only to be put on a
> flight the next day - now that's EAGLE EYE
> security, 3 months after 9/11 happened even). if
> he wasn't such a dumb sh*t himself (Go into the
> Bathroom to lite your shoes so fellow passengers
> don't see you and bring you down) another American
> Airlines plane would have gone down due to
> terrorism. How did he get on after hours of
> interrogation? They sure are sharp putting him in
> a "We're sorry" 4 star hotel (there's plenty of 2
> stars near CDG that would have been fine). Don't
> "believe everything you see" and don't "slide
> across the surface of things" my friend, you'll be
> much better off (pull the curtain back and check
> out the WIZARD cause he's there, alive and well,
> doing his dirty work, STILL fooling TONS of
> people).....Oh, just a FYI kinda thing. They've
> known about liquid explosives and plans like this
> latest one since 1994 when they found a computer
> in MANILA full of terrorist plans that included
> exploding 12 Jumbo's over the Pacific Ocean doing
> EXACTLY what they were gonna do now. So no worries
> about liquids from 1994 to 2006? Why not, they
> actually killed a Japanese guy when they did a
> test run before they were caught with their
> commputer so it wasn't any PIPE DREAM, it was REAL
> and it did WORK. So explain the 12 year lag time
> to me cause I don't get it (me and Austin Powers
> flunked out of HOMELAND SECURITY terrorist high
> acheivers class unfortunately).....


Jeezus, who's the drama queen now?

You need to lay off the amphetamines, sweetie.

MicksBrain Wrote:

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Thank goodness there is some REAL NEWS about the murdercase of that child model. I mean, come on, who cares about homeland security anyways.