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Ex-Con Charges Toward Cockpit on West Coast Flight

Friday, December 05, 2003

WASHINGTON — A recently released inmate on a Honolulu-to-Seattle flight charged toward the cockpit, shouting that he wanted to see the pilot, and was subdued by undercover air marshals who were on board to monitor him, officials said.



The incident involved 29-year-old Reno U. Maiava and occurred about 2 hours into Thursday's Northwest Airlines (search) Flight 924, according to Dave Adams, spokesman for the federal air marshal service. Adams described Maiava as having a history of violence and mental problems.

Maiava, who was being arraigned Friday afternoon in Seattle (search) on a charge of interfering with a flight crew, was disruptive before getting on the plane, Adams said.

He later got up during the flight and knocked into an elderly woman, Adams said. He also screamed, "Where's my shirt?" at one point, then charged toward the cockpit shouting that he wanted to see the captain, the spokesman said.

Adams said a federal air marshal identified himself and told the 5-foot-11, 215-pound Maiava to put his hands behind his head. He refused, and the other two marshals then identified themselves and, after a brief altercation, handcuffed him, Adams said.

Maiava was released from the Washington State Department of Corrections' Special Needs Unit (search) last month. State officials contacted air marshals and encouraged them to place agents aboard a Seattle-to-Honolulu flight that he took Nov. 19, Adams said.

Due to concerns Maiava could endanger people on his return flight, three marshals were assigned to it, he said.

A Northwest Airlines spokesman said the airline was not able to immediately comment on the incident.

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So, why was the guy even released? Especially if one idiot had to tie up 3 Marshals? In my mind that left at least one, maybe 2, other planes un guarded...

Put Senior Psychopath back in the correctional facility and leave him there...