Police have taken a pilot into police custody in Tupelo, Mississippi after he threatened to crash a small plane into a Wal-Mart. According to ABC News, Cory Wayne Patterson, who works at Tupelo Aviation, stole the aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air C-90, earlier that morning. Through his job, he had access to planes at Tupelo Regional Airport.

Around 5 a.m., local law enforcement learned that a plane was flying above Tupelo. The pilot contacted E911, threatening to intentionally crash into the Wal-Mart. Operators were eventually able to convince him not to do so. Patterson initially agreed to land the plane back at Tupelo Airport, however, he instead began traveling in the opposite direction.

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