The article goes even futher: “I particularly wanted to become a Moslem in an aeroplane” she is quoted as saying to a journalist who was on the flight with her

The article goes even futher: “I particularly wanted to become a Moslem in an aeroplane” she is quoted as saying to a journalist who was on the flight with her, “so that I might be as far from earth and as near to heaven as possible.” Sounds rather like a case of main character syndrome of a bored socialite than that she needed much persuasion to convert.