Suspect in Trans-Atlantic flight scare sent to psychiatric hospital

A woman whose bizarre behaviour aboard a London-to-Washington flight provoked a massive security scare will be held indefinitely at a residential mental health facility in New Hampshire, a federal judge ruled today.

Catherine Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vermont, has been in federal custody since August 17, when United Flight 923 was diverted to Boston after Mayo urinated on the floor of the cabin and made statements the pilot and crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.