Originalartikel zu finden unter: http://www.aero-news.net/news/commair.cfm?ContentBlockID=cacd68b8-422c-48ef-9e7b-eb99efb27070&Dynamic=1ANN wrote:Stop The Plane And Kick Her Off
Math Prof Wigs Out On United Flight
How would you react if a woman started screaming that "she had a baby named Jesus, she was impregnated by her uncle and President Bush was behind it all"? And then started to strip and throw things at other people?
If we mentioned that this happened on an airplane in flight. Would that make your decision any easier?
For the captain of United Airlines Flight 6664 from Eugene, OR to Denver, who had the bizarrely misbehaving woman as a passenger, the answer was simple enough: stop the plane and kick her off. So the United jet made an unscheduled landing in Salt Lake City, where the police took custody of one Bogdana Atanasova Georgieva.
Georgieva is a Bulgarian citizen living in Eugene, where she's a graduate student at the University of Oregon. According to a story in the Eugene Register-Guard, she's quite the math and science whiz, working on a master's degree in Physics to go with her PhD and several other degrees, all earned in various Oregon schools.
She is -- or was -- an assistant professor of mathematics at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, as well. We say "or was" because she's been purged from the current math department directory on the web, but she still appears in the Google cache. Every page of a dozen or so that referred to her has been sanitized.
A web page still exists at U of Oregon, which has a picture (the one with this article) and descriptions of her research into things like the "Generalized Variational Principle of Herglotz". Whatever that is.
She sure is bright, but is she nuts? Professionals at the University of Utah hospital are studying that question right now, as Georgieva was taken there for evaluation.
One thing's for sure: she disrupted Flight 6664. She began by tussling with an adjacent passenger for a bottle of water. Then she assaulted the passenger, who had asked flight attendants for assistance moving to another seat. Then she began yelling about her baby Jesus, her diddling uncle, etc., and then, during the Salt Lake City landing, she broke loose and allegedly ran towards the cockpit.
She was thwarted by flight attendants, and then tackled by other passengers, who held her for the police. *Still* she got away again, uttering a bomb threat, before being caught and caged. She has been charged with one felony count of Interfering With a Flight Crew by the Salt Lake City US Attorney's office. When, of course, that mental evaluation is done.
Unruly Pax oder so...?
Unruly Pax oder so...?
Eigentlich gehörts ja in den Bereich 'Sicherheit'...
For radar identification, throw your jumpseat rider out the window.
Originalbeitrag zu finden unter:ANN wrote:Airplane Disruptor May Have Medical Issue
Bogdana Georgieva Must Remain In SLC
As Aero-News previously reported, college mathematics professor Bogdana Atanasova Georgieva was arrested after a strange disruption on United Express/Skywest Flight 6664 from Eugene, Oregon to Denver on January 11, 2005. This week, Magistrate Judge David Nuffer of the US District Court in SLC ordered that she remain in the Salt Lake City area while the case is pending.
Among other things, she assaulted another passenger and aircrew members (yanking out hair and an earring from one unlucky flight attendant), ranted about having a baby named Jesus, and shouted that George Bush was behind it all. But it was the magic word "bomb" that guaranteed the diversion.
The regional jet made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City, where Georgieva was taken into custody, and then to a hospital for physical and mental evaluation. The FBI and local police searched the airplane for a bomb, and when none was found, the remaining passengers were able to reboard and continue to Denver.
But it seems that, while family members, like the uncle she was living with in Oregon, have blamed job stress for an outburst they say is atypical of
Georgieva, it may be that there is a medical explanation for her irrational behavior. She is under outpatient treatment by a Salt Lake City hospital -- but by its neurological, not psychological, department.
Georgieva was traveling to San Antonio to a mathematics conference, hoping to line up a new job. She had been let go by Pacific University, where she had been a tenure-track assistant professor, for reasons the college will not state.
Aeromedical experts have theorized that the relatively low partial pressure (or high equivalent altitude) in an airline cabin, which may be as high as 8,500 feet, may trigger several physical problems that present as "air rage." It's well documented that alcohol consumption, drug use, smoking, and altitude can combine in insidious ways to cloud judgment and degrade reasoning. There is no information available about whether Georgieva was subject to any of those other risk factors. It is also unknown whether she had pre-existing mental health problems, as the man shot by Air Marshals in December apparently did.
Whether her problem is organic, psychological or attitudinal in origin, she's not going to be cashing in any United Express frequent flyer miles from that trip soon. If found guilty of the charge of interfering with a flight crew member, Georgieva's employment problems are over too; for anything up to twenty years she'll be working for Unicor, Federal Prison Industries. If found not guilty for medical reasons, one can imagine a long course of treatment before anyone turns her loose on an airplane again.
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For radar identification, throw your jumpseat rider out the window.