Cory Patterson, 29, was arrested and charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats following the flight that took off from Tupelo Regional Airport in Mississippi on Saturday.
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An airport worker who knew how to take off but not land stole a small airplane Saturday and threatened to crash it into a Walmart, circling for five hours over unnerved Mississippians before ending the flight safely in a soybean field where police arrested him.