The menacing plane in the Mississippi sky. REUTERS
The pilot of a small plane flying over the city of Tupelo, Mississippi on Saturday threatened to crash the device into a Walmart store in Mississippi and has activated a time alert until the individual landed and was arrested.
The newspaper Daily newspaper noted that the device landed safely in a rural area while the chain CNN He added that the plane had been stolen.
The alert went off at five in the morning local time, after the man, identified as Cory Patterson, informed the emergency services that he expected intentionally crashing your plane against a Walmart department store.
The Police Department of the American city of Tupelo asked the population to avoid the area until further notice and warned that, due to the ability to move a plane, the danger area extended beyond that city.
The plane showed for hours erratic behavior with a lot of circular motions, according to the flight tracking website flightaware.
The US Federal Administration participated in monitoring the situation in coordination with the security forces, who stated that they had managed to get in touch with the pilot all morning.
Patterson is employed by the local airport where would have stolen the plane of the “King Air” type, a utility aircraft with a capacity of seven to eleven passengers. With a full tank of fuel, it can stay in the air for several hours.
It was not immediately reported whether it is an unbalanced one. The action sparked memories in the United States of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. But it’s also not clear if Patterson had that intention.
Washington. With agency relationship
Source: Clarin
