Ever hear of 911? You might want to lock the cockpit door!

Duuuhhhh!!

Warren Trout, Seattle, USA

If you were an Australian, would YOU let her in?

ArchieWW, Helensburgh, UK

Oh yeah, an other drama!!. I have no doubt that this poor lady is mentally disturbed as same as many other Somalis in the world affected by the situation is Somalia. I urge Kiwis to use common sense and take the lady to a hospital rather than jail

Van Dam, Utrecht, Netherlands

on a lighter note though.......

my flight from Auckland to Christchurch was diverted to Wellington as a result of all this.....so a few phone calls and a quick chat at the Qantas ticket desk to re-route a couple of tickets meant i got to watch the cricket today......shame we lost, but still......

Ben, Ware, UK

ON IMMIGRATION: when living in Malaysia I asked a volunteer in a refugee camp what happened to all the Vietnamese Boat people, as they were then called. She had no hesitation in assuring me that virtually all of them were welcomed into Christian-Judaic countries [ UK,USA,NZ.,...etc]. How many did their neighbors take? Thailand = 0. Malaysia = 0 Singapore = 2 Ph.ds Asian values. Western naivety.

tim, yokohama, japan

What's the racial gist in this report? A woman went nut simple, bringing up racial hatred against Caucasians makes me wonder if Mcveigh was Arabic or Negro.
Its only natural that people will emigrate to find greener pastures -ask the Americans. Unless a 'little' more is done to fix the 3rd world, the 1st world will have to do some more accommodating!

Buchi, Dublin, Eire

another case of blame it on mental illness, she belongs in prison, she ain't crazy, she is a criminal. omg!! l thought now days we were suppose to be safe inside planes, so much for the friendly-skies.

jan, New 0rleans, La, USA

Well, Greg Webber, Clinton, USA, in New Zealand is a social democracy, we have the rule of law; this woman has been taken into custody, charged with hijacking, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and two other assault charges. She is to appear in court today. I assume she will be held over for a psychiatric examination, then a trial in open court. Her sex, race and religion will have nothing to do with it Just the same as would happen in Tennessee. What's wrong with that?

David, Dunedin, NZ

She is obviously ill and needs care. Imagine her situation.
If any of us had gone through what she has probably gone through, we would be basket cases too.

Colin Nicholas, kelowna, Canada

Perhaps it's time to change the NZ approach to airport security checks. I certainly feel ashamed of the "she'll be right" mentality re domestic flight security checks within Australia and New Zealand. How about locked cockpits and scanning baggage / passengers in the future? This seems an entirely preventable attack to me.

Mark, Melbourne,

This is another poor me! When will the public wake up; this person sick or not is a danager to the people. Some of you said put her in a hospital; this person commited a act of trying to take peoples lives, she belongs in prison where she will have proper medical care but will not harm the public. Enough of this, put her where she belongs. What about the people that almost died, what would you say if she had been sucessful, oh poor lady was sick and someone should have acted to put her away bofore she harmed anyone? We need to be more honest with ourselfs and stand up to the DO GOODERS of this world and put away the bad people and save lives.

Doug Wigley, Sugar Land, TEXAS

How many more of these ticking time bombs is the West determined to import into its territory.
They are all filled with racial hatred against Europeans
Sooner or later one of them will succeed big time in killing thousands of us.

Keith Bentham, Wigan, Lancashire

I don't think it's fair to judge refugees on the out come with one individual. The question as to why NZ takes refugees is easy to answer, because they are a caring community and others are not willing to take them. To live in the comfort of the UK or the USA and try to understand these issues can not be easy but keep trying. Tyrannts need people and while the world keeps borders closed and ignores the plight of refugees the world will have problems. Example, let those who want to leave North Korea leave and you will quickly bring down the regime.

Graeme Henderson, Tara, Australia

Why were they not charged with attempted murder.Could it be the leftist in New Zealand.If we all do'nt watch out we all will be living under sharia law.

Greg Webber, Clinton , Tn, USA

how is it possible to get knives on board an aircraft nowadays--------something has gone badly wrong..how many jobs will go///

tony, glasgow, scotland

Why is New Zealand taking in Refugees from 10,000 miles away. What is wrong with stable African countries in that region such as Tunisia, Eygypt, Morrocco, etc. This would keep her closer to her family, and more in tune with her community/culture.

This is Leftist liberalism at work - do-gooders bringing people from the 3rd worls into a 1st world country..

Clash of the civilisation comes to mind...

Matt, London, , uk

This seems to be a reacuring theme. The more one helps, the more those helped demand more! Possible tighter background checks? Peace to all.

Sean, San Jose, U.S.A, California

This seems to be a reacuring theme. The more one helps, the more those helped demand more! Possible tighter background checks? Peace to all.

Sean, San Jose, U.S.A, California

Since the reduction of inflight meals on NZ domestic flights, maybe she took the offer of 'nuts and crackers' to heart.
Shame she didn't get to Aussie, good place for her.

Roger Davies, Christchurch, New Zealand

This is a sad incident, apparently someone with mental problems taking inspiration from terrorists. A Boeing 737 takes over three hours to fly from New Zealand to the East Coast of Australia so this plane with its 6 passengers would have made it to somwhere in the Tasman Sea before running out of fuel. I hope the NZ authorities do not over-react by imposing unecessarily harsh security measures on flights, but it's hard to see that they won't.

Barcus Berry, Hokitika, NZ

One commentator reported she was drug and alcohol misuser, I strongly believe she is mentaly ill and require mental hospital rather than prison. I wonder ,what would be her real identity to me as a somalian she faked her nationality to get recognition

m. ali-abdulle, london, uk

The article says she "...grappled with controls", She was probably just trying to find the microwave oven to heat up her Cornish pastie. I doubt it was like a Bruce Willis movie, looks more like 'Supersize Me'

Toby, London,

This is incredible, i recommend psychiatric test for her, she seems abnormal to me.

Samson, Nigeria

Samson, Agege, Lagos state

The incident must have been mis-reported.
She thought the plane was going *to* Australia.

Clive, Sittingbourne, Kent

Doug, It looks like you don't travel a lot! It requires you to have a passport or a travel doc to get onto international flights!

tilmy , london, UK

I agree, something a bit fishy about this story.?
what was her motive? she could have died trying a thing like that, you'd think twice before hijacking a plane!
what could she have done if she did get the plane to austrailia? they would have arrested or shot her, shurely she thought about that? i dunno just doesnt add up for me.

Luke, Bury St Edmunds, England

SOS, mentalist on board!

IceDragon, Llandudno, Wales

All the flights are full with New Zealanders emigrating to Australia.

A. Taringi, Auckland,

If she wanted to go to Australia so much, why didn't she just take a flight to Australia?????

Doug Lerner, Katsushika, Tokyo