Pilot who threatened to crash plane into Walmart store in US city charged
A man, who circled a stolen plane over the US city of Tupelo for hours and threatened to crash into a Walmart store, has been charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats, police said on Saturday.
The Tupelo Police Department said it was notified around 5 am on Saturday that a pilot flying a “King Air type” airplane – a small utility plane – was considering crashing into a Walmart located on West Main street.
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office later confirmed the plane had landed in a field in Ashland, roughly 60 miles northeast of Tupelo in the US state of Mississippi.
The man landed the plane safely after talks with the police.
