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Pilot threatening to intentionally crash small plane into Mississippi Walmart, police say​

A pilot in Tupelo, Mississippi, is threatening to intentionally crash a small plane into a Walmart, police said Saturday morning.

"At this time the situation is ongoing with TPD and all Emergency Services in our area on alert," Tupelo Police said in a news release Saturday morning. "With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo."

The Tupelo Walmart store is "currently closed and evacuated," Charles Crowson, director of the Walmart Press Office, tells CNN.

"We're working closely with local investigators and are referring questions to law enforcement," he added.

The plane was reportedly north of Tupelo in the Benton, Union County, area about 8:35 a.m. local time, police said in an update.

"Local, State and Federal Authorities are continuing to monitor this dangerous situation," the update said.

The airplane is "possibly King Air type," police said in their Facebook post.

Source: CNN

 

[Bullet Club]

 

[Patrick S.]

Oh boy... hope no innocent people get hurt

 

[Bullet Club]

Apparently it's an airport employee that stole a plane.

 

[Kilau]

Really scary with college football games about to start all over the region. I don’t know what his range is but it might be a real concern.

 

[winjer]

The USA is like a real life GTA server. And it never ceases to amaze and entertain.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Don't do it, flyboy. Land in an unpopulated field somewhere. Don't take innocent people with you.

 

[Bullet Club]

Here's a flight tracker:

Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24

View flight on Flightradar24

www.flightradar24.com

 

[adamsapple]

holy shit, hopefully this is deescalated without any civilians getting hurt.

 

[AJUMP23]

I guess I would leave town for a few hours.

 

[Chittagong]

The live altitude graph is wild

 

[Bullet Club]

Here's another flight tracker that might be a bit better:

N342ER Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Track N342ER flight from Tupelo Rgnl to Somerville, TN

flightaware.com

 

[Chittagong]

Crashed I think

edit: nope, up again. Dives?

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Crashed I think

Plane is still moving on my map.

 

[Vestal]

Is this the first such threat from a civilian(Non Commercial) aircraft? Don't remember ever hearing of something like this.

 

[Little Mac]

 

[Chittagong]

He’ll be running out of fuel pretty soon based on specs

BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A operating costs, price and specs

BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A Price and Operating Costs Specifications The BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A, production in 1984 – 1992, requires a two man crew and can be configured in 5 seats. Maximum operating altitude of 30,000′, a optimal cruise speed of 234 knots/269 MPH, and a 809 NM/932 SM seats-full...

myaircraftcost.com

the aircraft has a range of 3-4 hours of regular flying. He is 2h 40 min in and riding it like a roller coaster.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

He’ll be running out of fuel pretty soon based on specs

BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A operating costs, price and specs

BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A Price and Operating Costs Specifications The BEECHCRAFT King Air C90A, production in 1984 – 1992, requires a two man crew and can be configured in 5 seats. Maximum operating altitude of 30,000′, a optimal cruise speed of 234 knots/269 MPH, and a 809 NM/932 SM seats-full...

myaircraftcost.com

the aircraft has a range of 3-4 hours of regular flying. He is 2h 40 min in and riding it like a roller coaster.

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about fuel limits. Am I reading this right? Looks like he's right under 2 hours in-air, unless it started counting from scheduled takeoff time or something?

 

[Bullet Club]

Here's a local live news stream about it:

Pilot scared north Mississippi Saturday with threat; arrested after landing in field

An airport worker stole a plane in Tupelo and threatened to crash it into a Walmart store.

www.wtva.com

 

[DaleinCalgary]

what a waste of a plane and whatever damage he does.

 

[Trogdor1123]

The USA is like a real life GTA server. And it never ceases to amaze and entertain.

Pretty good chance someone is going to die and you are entertained?

 

[V1LÆM]

shoot him down before he kills anyone.

 

[ManaByte]

Pretty good chance someone is going to die and you are entertained?

This is America dude.

 

[winjer]

Pretty good chance someone is going to die and you are entertained?

 

[Bullet Club]

People are saying it's this guy:

 

[Trogdor1123]

I shouldn’t have laughed at this but I did…

 

[V1LÆM]

People are saying it's this guy:

if it is him then fuck him but maybe wait until an official confirmation...

 

[winjer]

I shouldn’t have laughed at this but I did…

 

[Trogdor1123]

 

[V1LÆM]

seems to be gaining altitude. gone up about 500ft in the last few minutes.

and just dropped 500ft real fucking fast! and now down to 900ft...

 

[Grildon Tundy]

No flight tracker update for the past 5 minutes, and it was losing speed and altitude prior. Might be over

Edit: make that 10 minutes, and the last update was over a seemingly-unpopulated area

 

[Bullet Club]

Looks like he's crashed in an unpopulated area.

 

[Patrick S.]

RIP to the pilot. It's sad when people feel there's no other way out than to kill themselves

 

[V1LÆM]

and he's down.

at least he didn't take anyone else with him.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I’m glad nobody else was hurt at least.

 

[V1LÆM]

RIP to the pilot. It's sad when people feel there's no other way out than to kill themselves

it's a shame yeah but don't fucking threaten to crash into a supermarket and kill others fuck sake.

 

[Bullet Club]

The fire department has confirmed the plane has crashed.

 

[Patrick S.]

it's a shame yeah but don't fucking threaten to crash into a supermarket and kill others fuck sake.

Yeah, but this guy was angry at the world and knew he was going to die today. I can't even begin to imagine what must have been going through his mind.

 

[Bullet Club]

He might be alive.

 

[Romulus]

Why didn't they scramble a jet and swat him out of the sky?

 

[V1LÆM]

Yeah, but this guy was angry at the world and knew he was going to die today. I can't even begin to imagine what must have been going through his mind.

i sympathise with him in regards to that but if you want to kill people then you can go take a fuck to yourself. if you want to kill yourself that is tragic but you don't need to go take a plane and threaten to crash into a supermarket.

 

[Bullet Club]

 

[Bullet Club]

Edit: Pic might not be related to this incident so removed.

 

[kanjobazooie]

I’m glad this didn’t end in a tragedy.

 

[Bullet Club]

The person is Cory Patterson, the guy that made the FB post.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

The plane from today's story was N342ER, but that one says "N7..."

 

[Bullet Club]

The plane from today's story was N342ER, but that one says "N7..."

It might not be it then, although people were saying it was.

Anyhoo, all the other pics are legit and he's alive and in custody.

 

[Patrick S.]

i sympathise with him in regards to that but if you want to kill people then you can go take a fuck to yourself. if you want to kill yourself that is tragic but you don't need to go take a plane and threaten to crash into a supermarket.

Yeah, of course. No question.

 

[levyjl1988]

This is usually newsworthy only if there was a body count like a public shooting. All the drama and GTA events always happen in the USA.
It’s the American dream because you have to be asleep to live it.

 

[thefool]

How do you even respond against a situation like this? The range of a plane makes pretty much anything a possible target within a massive distance.