[WFSB] An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small airplane Saturday and threatened to crash it into a Walmart, circling for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him. Cory Wayne Patterson, 29, was uninjured after the rough landing shortly after posting a goodbye message to his parents and sister on Facebook, authorities said at a news conference. The message said he “never actually wanted to hurt anyone.”
[CBC] The 29-year-old airport worker was uninjured after the rough landing, authorities said at a news conference. After an anxious morning of watching the plane's meandering path overhead, Tupelo Mayor Todd Jordan called the resolution "the best case scenario." No one was injured. The worker was employed fuelling planes at the Tupelo Regional Airport, giving him access to the Beechcraft King Air C90A, police Chief John Quaka said.
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