pm, now scrapped because of a hydrogen leak. then there was this, pretty remarkable, slow developing drama unfolding all morning over the skies of tupelo, mississippi an ending in a cornfield. it began with the pilot threatening to crash that plane into a walmart. that is where we begin with this mississippi breaking news. the latest development we have just learned is that that plane is now down. apparently landing safely with the pilot now in police custody, after circling the skies for hours. i believe four hours total. and threatening to crash there in mississippi. it all started early this morning. people got rid of the plane, his pilot saying a planned to crash into a walmart in tupelo. that prompted evacuations from walmart. police that the pilot were apparently in by phone early on. then the plane flew this really haphazard manner for hours before coming down in that cornfield, again just minutes before we came on the air. here is part of the coverage from our affilia
before coming down in that cornfield, again just minutes before we came on the air. here is part of the coverage from our affiliate walking through the plains track as the drama unfolded. those circles mainly in the 8:00 hour by 9:00 hour it has set up again it s a radical path between hickory flat and the ashland area circling for again hours on end. hours one inches one of those phrases use without thinking about what it means. but literally hours on ants. typically between 175 and 260 miles an hour. it then circled northwest of ripley between 9:00 10:00 hour s. for a good chunk of its path, it tended to do circles that were against clockwise, but the circles became more erratic us fool burns, he needed to reduce