TUPELO, Miss. - A plane has been circling over Mississippi, since early Saturday morning, and the pilot is threatening to intentionally crash into the store, reports say.According to WTVA, Tupelo Police said they received reports starting at 5 a.m.
about a plane flying over the Northeast Mississippi town. The pilot later called 911 and threatened to crash the plane into a local Walmart.
Police are evacuating the area to "disperse people as much as practical," they said."TPD also has been able to begin talking with the pilot directly," police said.The Daily Journal reports that the man flying the plane — a 1987 Beech C90A — works at Tupelo Regional Airport.
Authorities believe the plane is stolen. "With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo," police said.Mississippi Gov.