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gravestown, mississippi. around 10:00 a.m. local time. int not all that far from where it took off around 5:00 a.m. this morning. you could see a beechcraft, a twin engine commuter, seats about six or eight people and we know from authorities in tupelo that this plane was stolen by what appears to be an airport employee. police received a call around 5:00 a.m. central daylight time where the pilot of that plane, actually we don t know if it is way pilot. but the person flying that airplane called 911 and said they were going to steal the airplane and crash it into one of the local walmarts in tupelo. the plane circled for about five hours above the area. not only above that walmart, but also above nearby neighborhoods and also over a nearby national forest. what is going to be the big question here is what ultimately brought the plane down. i spoke to folks who have flown this type of airline and they say it holds between four to six hours of fuel when it is loaded so t ....
Best possible outcome of how this started with the threat to crash the plane into a place where a lot of people go shopping. pete, stay with us. in just a moment we ll be coming back to you at some spoint. i want to bring in peter goals. the faa is investigating in coordination with law enforcement there on the ground. what all will they be looking at, and i suspect that the most interesting and most important part of this in some parts is what the suspect tells them about all of this. yeah. i think that there will be a couple of things to look at. one is they ll review the security at tupelo airport. i mean, this is not the first time that a badged worker has stolen a plane and taken off with it. there was an incident at sea-tac four years ago with a much larger plane that ended in ....
Before. at approximately 5:23 a.m., patterson from the eric called lee county 911 to tell them that he is going to crash this aircraft into the west main walmart in tupelo, mississippi. soon there after, tupelo police department and fire department evacuated the walmart and the surrounding areas. we were assisted by lee county s.o. numerous major streets in tupelo were shut down to help save lives during this critical incident. negotiators made contact with the pilot and were able to convince him to not carry out this deed and to land the aircraft at tupelo airport. the pilot did not have experience to land an aircraft. a private pilot assisted us in helping this pilot complete this. however, it was not completed. ....