A Beechcraft King Air C90A owned by Southeast Aviation was stolen Saturday from Mississippi’s Tupelo Regional Airport (KTUP), and officials told local news media that the pilot, identified as Cory Patterson, was circling the area, threatening to crash the twin turboprop into a local Walmart. A short time later, the airplane was reported down in a field northeast of Tupelo, about halfway to Memphis, Tennessee, with the pilot in custody, according to CNN’s Pete Muntean.
Here’s the Tupelo police department statement and what appears to be the plane’s flight path: pic.twitter.com/Ugmq9p7yB6
