Flight Attendant Indicted in Bomb Threat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 30, 2004
Filed at 11:49 p.m. ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A flight attendant was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly placing a bomb threat on an airplane.
Gay Wilson, 37, was charged with unlawful interference with a flight crew, communicating false information that endangered the safety of an aircraft in flight, and maliciously conveying false information.
The threatening note was left on an American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Boston on May 27, forcing the plane to be diverted to Nashville. Wilson was an off-duty flight attendant for American Airlines riding on the flight.
``I'm sorry,'' Wilson wrote in a confession, FBI agent Greg Franklin testified in a preliminary hearing last week. ``I take full responsibility for my problems. I've never been in trouble in all my life until now.''
Wilson initially said she found the note in the bathroom and showed it to another flight attendant on the plane. It read, ``There is a bomb on board this flight to Boston in cargo. Live Saddam.''
When agents questioned her later, she admitted writing the note, Franklin said, and said she had ``personal problems.''
Wilson has been held without bond since her arrest.
The American Airlines plane made an emergency landing, escorted to the ground by two fighter jets.