FUMES SICKEN PASSENGERS, RESULT IN WOMAN'S ARREST

An overnight flight from Los Angeles became more than the usual
``red-eye'' when acrid fumes from a passenger's handbag sickened
several people and led to the owner's arrest on charges of possessing
illegal narcotics.

American Airlines Flight 10 was halfway from Los Angeles to New York
early Sunday with 143 passengers and 11 crew members when the odor
wafted through the coach cabin, causing a spate of coughing and
burning eyes, said Alan Hicks, a spokesman for the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey.

Flight attendants traced the smell to a piece of hand luggage that
contained two bottles, one of them broken and leaking a foul-smelling
liquid. A police test revealed that it contained liquid cocaine, Hicks
said.

Lisa Patricia Bowman, 32, of Los Angeles, was being held on charges of
possession of a controlled substance, reckless endangerment and
conspiracy, Hicks said.