The pilot of a small airplane circling over a Mississippi city on Saturday morning has threatened to 𝄹crash the aircraft into a Walmart store, police said.
The Tupelo Police Department said in a Facebook post that the༒ Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. The plane started circling about 5 a.m. and was still in the air more than three hours later.
🌊Police sai꧃d they have made contact with the pilot directly.
“Citizens are asked to avoid that area until an all clear is given," the police wrote. “With the mobil🐲ity of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much lꦰarger than even Tupelo.”
Law enforcement told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal sh🍌ortly after 8 a.m. that the plane had left the airspace around Tupelo and was flying near a Toyota m🌳anufacturing plant in nearby Blue Springs.
“State law enforcement and emergency managers are closely tracking this dangerous situat💫ion,” Gov Tate Reeve s wrote on Twitter. “All citizens should be on ღalert and aware of updates from the Tupelo Police Department.”
