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TUPELO • The man accused of stealing a million-dollar plane Saturday morning and threatening to crash it into a Walmart has been denied bond.
Negotiators were able to get in touch with him and were able to get a pilot to talk to patterson on the phone. at one point they tried to steer the plane back to the tupelo regional airport and get cory wayne patterson to effect a landing there. they said that he was within 100 feet of making a successful landing, that is a very small distance, then essentially went back around, flew off to the northwest, over a national forest. they lost contact with him, the police did, via phone. and then they were able to reestablish contact with him when he said that he was in the plane still but at this ...
Muntean, he is coming back in this conversation because you have learned some new details. can you tell me what you can about what you learned about this -- the person piloting this plane? >> reporter: we were able to see on faa records that cory wayne patterson had a student pilot certificate. at some time he was trying to learn to fly. that was pretty easy to figure out. i want to balance this out a little, the general aviation world, the smaller airports, i'm a bit biased because i'm a member and i fly small airplanes for a living. it's a sector that looks out for its own and is always tryi...
The Tupelo Police Department said Cory Wayne Patterson faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats.
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, circling for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him.