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Municipal Court judge Jay Weir denied bond for Patterson after hearing claims that he had already proven he was a danger to the community.

LEE COUNTY - Tupelo Municipal Court Judge Jay Weir has ordered the man who threatened to crash a plane to Tupelo for most of the morning Saturday, September 3rd, held

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An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small airplane Saturday and threatened to crash it into a Walmart, circling for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him.

Authorities in Tupelo, MS offered new details on the incident involving an airport worker who stole an airplane, flying erratically for hours after threatening to crash into a local Walmart store.

US man charged after threat to fly plane into Walmart

An airport worker in Mississippi stole a twin-engine plane early Saturday morning and threatened to crash into a Walmart.

An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small plane on Saturday and threatened to c...

Tragically, but somehow the suspect managed to land the plane in a field and no one got hurt. >> yeah, that flight path was dizzying. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has more on how this whole thing played out. >> reporter: this is quite possibly the best possible outcome of this incredible story in tupelo, mississippi, where an employee of a local airport was able to get out on to the ramp, get into a twin engine beechcraft king air, a commuter plane that seats about six people, take of...

RIPLEY, Miss. (AP) — An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small airplane Saturday and threatened to crash it into a Walmart