TUPELO, Miss. - A Tupelo Regional Airport worker, who knew how to take off but not land, stole a twin-engine airplane Sept. 3 and threatened to crash it into a Walmart here, circling for five hours before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested Cory Wayne Patterson. He was uninjured after the rough landing. Patterson was employed Tupelo Aviation to planes at the TRA, giving him access to the twin-engine Beechcraft King Air C90A, Police Chief John Quaka said. It was not immediately known why, shortly after 5 a.m., the employee took off in the fully fueled plane, but called in a threat to a Lee County 911 dispatcher to say he planned to crash the plane into Walmart. (Source: WTVA 09/03/22) Pilot scared north Mississippi Saturday with threat; arrested after landing in field | News | wtva.com
UPDATE: A Tupelo Municipal Court judge denied bond for Patterson on Sept. 4.
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