Off-Duty Flight Attendant Pleads Guilty to Bomb Note

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An off-duty flight attendant accused of leaving a bomb note on an airplane has pleaded guilty to intentionally interfering with a flight crew, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutor Debra T. Phillips said Gay Wilson accepted a plea agreement that was filed Friday in federal court in Nashville.

Wilson, who has been jailed since the May 27 incident, could receive more than five years in prison at sentencing, set for May 13.

Her lawyer, Kenneth L. Lawson, did not immediately return a message seeking comment left Friday night.

Wilson was traveling on an American Airlines flight with 129 passengers from Dallas to Boston when, in Nashville airspace, she went to the bathroom and claimed she found a bomb note, authorities said.

The note read: ''There is a bomb on board this flt to Boston in cargo. Live Sadaam!''

Two fighter jets escorted the airplane to Nashville International Airport, where it was evacuated. Authorities didn't find a bomb on the aircraft.

The defendant, who was 37 at the time of the incident, returned to Dallas the next day and eventually admitted writing the note, authorities said.

President Bush and Air Force One happened to be in Nashville for a fund-raiser at the time the flight made an emergency landing.