Not sure what can be done in a situation like this. Just hope to talk him down?
I just saw this. Do they know if there are any passengers?
I talked with my landlord (who has his pulse on daffy conspiracy theories, because he is a daffy conspiracy theorist) and he said, “Oh, yeah, they must have heard about the FEMA centers underneath Walmart.”
Air Force needs to send a fighter to shoot this dude down.
A burst from the guns will take care of it.
I imagine fighter jets can be sent up with the intention of shooting him down in a ‘safe’ place where there’s not a lot of people (ie farm, open field etc).
Except for, you know, the flaming wreckage falling somewhere onto Tupelo…
And someone may be aboard other than the pilot. Risky, no matter how it is handled.
A good pilot should be able to chase the plane outside the city.
I’ve heard the air wash from a jet can be intimidating.
They do need to chase him away from the city.
Picky, picky, picky.
Or, you know, cause the plane to fall out of control, and crash somewhere in Tupelo.
But a suicidal pilot isn’t going to be bothered by that.
The plane has landed in a field.
Appears to be a good outcome.
Only a few days before 9/11 anniversary.
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Best possible outcome. Nice. Good job to all law enforcement and authorities involved!
I can’t be the only one thinking “A small plane crashing into an empty Walmart would be a hell of a video”
Not quite. If he’d landed at the airport like they wanted, no soybeans would’ve been harmed.
Wonder if crop insurance covers damage caused by aircraft.
Maybe from a spectacle standpoint. But one in five Lee County residents is food insecure. The last thing they need is a severely damaged Walmart.
I know, not what you meant. No disrespect.
Doubtful. A small plane is light and fragile and a Walmart is vast. Unless it was carrying a gasoline bomb or plowed directly through the front doors, I suspect it would look like a mosquito plowing into the surface of a tub of Cool Whip.
You know, we all gripe about how the police escalate to deadly force when it isn’t needed. I rather like that isn’t their first option here, if only because they don’t have any attack aircraft.