‘Goodbye’: Pilot Threatens to Crash Plane into Mississippi Walmart
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The small aircraft has been flying in circles for hours with the pilot sending an ominous message from the air on Facebook.

:wut:

Edit: Looks like tracking has been lost around 900ft. Could be an indication of a crash or being downed. Edit: Edit: Aircraft crashed, pilot is alive and in police custody.

    • THC
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      1 year ago

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      • Azarova [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        By my very rough napkin math, he's probably got at least a few more hours of fuel left assuming the tanks were full when he stole it.

        • THC
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          1 year ago

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          • StarShip [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            They're supposedly talking to him so I imagine the options are:

            1. Guide him to a safe landing at a small airport.
            2. Let him fly around, run out of gas & crash. (If he's away from people)
            3. Let him fly around away from people, hope for option 2 but blow him out the sky if he heads back towards a population.
          • Gamer_time [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I mean, what can they do? Shoot him down and hope he crashes in a field? That'll kill the flyer though, so that's iffy, and there is not guarantee he'll crash in an area with no people. I guess the dilemma is trying to minimize causalities from the plane being used as a weapon. But hey, I'm not a plane hijacking/potential kamikaze mission expert, I don't know what I'm talking about at all.

            • THC
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              1 year ago

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      • Azarova [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The commercial jets around him are tens of thousands of feet above him and also much faster than a king air, so that isn't a danger. He'll almost certainly crash into the ground, it's just a matter of where and whether he attempts to take people with him.