A pilot, circling a stolen airplane for hours over Tupelo, a city in northeast Mississippi
Below are the details about the incident that happened in Tupelo, a city in northeast Mississippi-
- A pilot has contacted E911 and is threatening to intentionally crash into a Walmart on West Main.
- A Beechcraft King Air 90, was in the air for more than five hours in what police described as a “dangerous situation
- The Tupelo Police Department asked citizens to avoid this area until everything is clear.
A pilot who circled a stolen plane for hours over Tupelo, a northeastern Mississippi city in the United States, threatening to “deliberately” crash it into a Walmart store was arrested on landing. the plane safely, Gov. Tate Reeves said Saturday.
The situation has been resolved and no one was injured,” Gov. Reeves announced on Twitter.
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“The plane crashed over North MS. Grateful that the situation was resolved and no one was injured. First and foremost, thank you to the local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies who have handled this situation most professionally,” said Mr. Reeves said in a tweet.
The plane, a Beechcraft King Air 90, was in the air for more than five hours in what police described as a “dangerous situation.”
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A Pilot employee of Tupelo Regional Airport
The pilot is an employee of Tupelo Regional Airport and the aircraft is a 1 Beech C90A, a nine-seater with two engines, the newspaper said. Its owner is Southeast Aviation, LLC, Oxford, Mississippi, said.
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“On 09/03/2022 at about 05:00 am TPD (Tupelo Police Department) was notified that a pilot of an aircraft (possibly King Air) flew over Tupelo. The pilot has contacted E911 and is threatening to intentionally crash into a Walmart on West Main,” police said in a statement.
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Police told the Mississippi Daily Journal With just after 8 a.m. that the plane had left the airspace around Tupelo and was flying near a Toyota manufacturing facility in nearby Blue Springs information as to the identity or motive of the person.
Previously, the Tupelo Police Department asked citizens to avoid this area until everything is clear. “With the mobility of an aircraft of this type The danger zone is much larger than Tupelo,” police said in a statement.
All emergency services have been put on alert, he said.
A map from the FlightAware website showed what appeared to be the plane’s course was Plane: an irregular zigzag pattern around Tupelo, a town of about 40,000 people known as the birthplace of the “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley.
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The trajectory of the pilots. The Daily Journal, a local newspaper, reported that the pilot of the plane is an employee of Tupelo Regional Airport.
