a plane, a beechcraft turbo-prop, owned by a local doctor and took it over tupelo and flying around and around and around and flight tracker is keeping track of what he s up to. hope he hasn t been making good on his threat, but he s running out of fuel in the process. charles watson is in mississippi. neil, obviously, this is a developing situation we were here in jackson, mississippi covering the water crisis when we started seeing reports of a man flying low and a plane circling a walmart this morning. we were told from tube low police they started receiving reports this morning of the low-flying plane. people were concerned with what they saw so they decided to put a call in to police. we re told by police that that pilot later got into contact with police and threatened to intentionally crash that plane into a walmart. about two hours later, we re then told the pilot moved out of the tupelo, mississippi air space and headed towards blue springs, mississippi where he be
recession or not. in terms of growth, you have also had a deterioration. last september, expecting growth to be about 1.2%. now, the fed is expecting growth this year to be less than half a point. again, not quite a recession. we re kind of operating at stall speed. lower growth projections for 2024. hopefully a resumption. never getting really all that much robust growth in the immediate future. steve, you also have a new op-ed in the new york times, entitled is working from home really working? in it, you write, quote, working from home, the great resignation, quiet quitting, whatever you want to call it, the attitude of many americans toward work has appeared to have changed during the long pandemic. and, generally speaking, not for the better. the new approach threatens to do long-lasting damage to economic growth and prosperity. the changing work habits have spawned a push for a codification of what may already be a reality.
that. it increases what we call our stall speed, which is the speed at which an airplane really can t fly anymore. and he s done a few of those in this track over the last period of time. he s right now flying fairly straight and level. but those small, very sharp turns, those are the ones that worry me. neil: sal, another question as well. the walmart in question that he was supposedly targeted. we don t know his connection or beef with that particular walmart was evacuated. should other businesses in the area also be evacuated? home owners? they re told to be abundantly cautious and heard for quite a few are ending it the same way, looking up, we re outside in our back yard or front yard, what have you. what do you tell them. unless he s very skilled, he probably would have trouble hitting his target. so, if he intngs
the pilot called ground control asking for permission to go 38,000. the maximum is 40,000 that kind of air bus can 90. didn t hear anything. that was the last we heard. after that, there was silence. no more may days nothing. when you look at the radar data there s troubling information. it is hard to know what was really happening because we re measuring ground speed and it may not be very accurate. what it does indicate is that the aircraft was dangerously close, if not at its stall speed. meaning not that it is quitting. it would fall out of the sky. so a big question here he was not cleared of that altitude and yet ascended. was at an emergency operation on the part of the pilot or an updraft which he could not control? was he going for a ride courtesy of mother nature? he was technically allowed to go up. even though he hadn t received permission. in an emergency situation, the captain can do anything he needs to preserve the souls on board the aircraft.
there this was a surviveable event and someone drowned, of course, you d see water in their lungs and all that kind of thing. all these bits and pieces and factual information will eventually make the bottom line story. but, you know getting them in isolation and trying build a storyline is really unfair at this point. you do believe that once we have the black box, we ll be able to put together more information about the story? absolutely. because the data on the flight data recorder it will give us an understanding of what the airplane was doing as it went into that thunderstorm. there s been a lot of speculation as if the pilots actually tried to climb up to 38,000 feet rather than an undraft trying to push them up to 38,000 feet. there s been a lot of these stories about the airplane stalled, an aerodynamic stall because it got too slow. we don t have any of that data. 353 knots of ground speed is nowhere close to the stall speed. we really need to understand the