Man Steals Aircraft; Threatens To Crash It Into Walmart
A worker at an airport who stole a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatened to crash it into a Mississippi Walmart was arrested after he eventually landed in a field, police said. Cory Wayne Patterson, an employee with Tupelo Aviation for the past 10 years, stole a Beechcraft King Air C90 twin-engine aircraft and took off from Tupelo Regional Airport at 5:08 a.m. local time, police said. Patterson called 911 from the plane and said …