this is not who we are. oh every patriotic american knows how, president biden painting the upcoming elections as the battle for the soul of the nation. more on that up. ahead leading with the breaking news in tupelo, mississippi, where a man flying a small plane is in custody, following ordeal as he left the skies saturday morning. he threatened to crash the aircraft into a walmart which led to the store becoming evacuated. the plane eventually came down. more with nbc correspondent blaine talk to us, we just heard from the officials a short time ago. whatever we learned about this individual who took this plane and perhaps as motivations here? yes, but we are learning and continuing to learn more by the hour how this unfolded and how it became unbelievably v to a peaceful and with no injuries. more about this individuals. he s 29 years old. he actually worked at that airport, in tupelo. he worked there for about a decade. he was responsible for refusing the aircraft.
'It is a weight-shift ultralight. It is flown like a hang-glider, so you fly the wing itself, so to go right, we push left, and left, we push right,' pilot Cathy Montgomery said.
‘It is a weight-shift ultralight. It is flown like a hang-glider, so you fly the wing itself, so to go right, we push left, and left, we push right,’ pilot Cathy Montgomery said.
peaceful and with no injuries. more about this individuals. he s 29 years old. he actually worked at that airport, in tupelo. he worked there for about a decade. he was responsible for refusing the aircraft. he had access to these planes. we re also learning more, the police chief gave me more of an insight to what this process was like ultimately getting him to bring the plane down, not injure anybody, and surrender without any incident. he said they were talking to him by cell phone the entire time. and actually his family, the suspect s family, was involved in some wayne actually bringing this to an aunt. they actually came and re-speaking to him. he couldn t give me details of what they said. but he said they were speaking to him and they were instrumental in bringing this to an end without any sort of incident. a couple of things that stood out to me. early in this flight, about three hours or so, and he agreed to land. he said, i ll go ahead and land safely. but he didn t know ho