skrewdriver, matches, vaseline and two notes

clevohardcore - 8-16-2006 at 11:15 AM

today a flight was escorted by fighter jets to Heathrow airport. A woamn had 2 notes praising Al Qieda(spelling)

clevohardcore - 8-16-2006 at 11:16 AM

Flight diverted to Boston over passenger disturbance

Wednesday, August 16, 2006; Posted: 11:09
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Fighter jets escorted a diverted London-to-Washington, D.C., flight to Boston's Logan airport Wednesday after a distraught passenger pulled out a screw driver, matches, Vaseline and a note referencing al-Qaeda, an airport spokesman said.

United Flight 923 landed safely, Logan airport spokesman Phil Orlandella said.

The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, UAL Corp. spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was.

State Police and federal agencies took control of the plane after it landed.

Passengers were seen coming off the plane on the tarmac and being loaded onto a bus. Orlandella said their carry-on luggage was being checked. The flight was from London's Heathrow Airport to Dulles.

Last week, British authorities said they foiled a terror plot to blow up trans-Atlantic flights from London to the United States

newbreedbrian - 8-16-2006 at 11:49 AM

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Borrman said a female passenger was spotted engaging in some "suspicious" activity, but he could not immediately say what the activity was.

wow, sounds like and open and shut case to me. airtight. maybe she was in cahoots with rollins, after all he WAS reading a book on Al Qaeda. Anyone else feeling more free yet?

joemaconmovies - 8-16-2006 at 12:13 PM

i dunno about free but i sure as hell don't feel any safer. i'm obviously glad they foiled that london plot but...still not feeling any safer, really. what they did in london is kinda what should've been done on 9/11. but i don't want to get into a big gov't bashing deal right now.

DaveMoral - 8-16-2006 at 08:42 PM

Jeez. I'll be sure to bring some book with Arabic next time I fly to see if I'm doing "suspicious activity."

newbreedbrian - 8-16-2006 at 11:27 PM

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Jeez. I'll be sure to bring some book with Arabic next time I fly to see if I'm doing "suspicious activity."

while i was being facetious, i wouldn't recommend that. learning is unpatriotic these days. while you're at it, don't borrow that book from the library as certain books are flagged and library records are being requested these days. as civil liberties continue to dissapear in the name of freedom (ironic huh?) remember that things aren't always as they seem.

clevohardcore - 8-17-2006 at 03:13 PM

Turns out she was a crazy bitch. Began peeing on her seat and yelling the word "PAKISTAN" and they found 7 lighters on her.

newbreedbrian - 8-17-2006 at 03:25 PM

she sounds like fun, wonder if she's single?

DaveMoral - 8-17-2006 at 05:50 PM

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Jeez. I'll be sure to bring some book with Arabic next time I fly to see if I'm doing "suspicious activity."

I've got alot of books then that were probably flagged.

clevohardcore - 8-17-2006 at 05:57 PM

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she sounds like fun, wonder if she's single?

^^^^^^^ I guess if your into 59 year olds.

joemaconmovies - 8-17-2006 at 07:04 PM

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she sounds like fun, wonder if she's single?

I can imagine Shane dating her for some reason. Your avitar makes me think you look like him, even though you don't.

newbreedbrian - 8-17-2006 at 07:32 PM

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she sounds like fun, wonder if she's single?

^^^^^^^ I guess if your into 59 year olds.

yea but she's young at heart and probably crazy in the sack.

newbreedbrian - 8-17-2006 at 07:35 PM

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Jeez. I'll be sure to bring some book with Arabic next time I fly to see if I'm doing "suspicious activity."

I've got alot of books then that were probably flagged.

it's actually been a pretty interesting battle between the government and the libraries. guess which one is interested in preserving free speech? some libraries have been refusing to give up those records

Voodoobillyman - 8-18-2006 at 08:11 AM

more than just a few notes being passed and a "banned book" by the government. The world needs all kinds to go around, even bleeding hearts and conspiracy theorists.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- 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-Qaeda and the September 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday.

Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vermont, 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 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."

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 September 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. (Watch how jitters make for unfriendly skies -- 2:07)

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.

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Mayo does have clear connections to Pakistan. The Daily Times of Pakistan has published columns she has written, including one on March 18, 2003, in which she criticized President Bush.

"The folk songs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush," she wrote. "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."

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 which 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 September 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 Qaeda, Choldin wrote.

'She was in a frenzy'
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.

Gov. Mitt Romney said later that the woman was claustrophobic and became so upset that she had to be restrained. Passengers said she appeared to have emotional problems.

"She was in a frenzy," passenger Martin Drinkwater of London, England, told The Boston Globe. "She then pulled her trousers and knickers down and squatted on the floor."

Antony Nash, 31, of San Diego, California, said he grew nervous watching the muttering woman seated near him, as she paced and made too many trips to the bathroom. The pilot did not make a general announcement to passengers of what was happening.

"I noticed F-15s next to the plane. I said, 'Oh my God.' And then we saw the emergency vehicles," Nash said.

DaveMoral - 8-18-2006 at 06:50 PM

HI-larious