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from as msnbc world headquarters, welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news as we await a news conference from police in mississippi where a pilot is now in custody after threatening to crash his plane into a walmart. he circled the skies for hours and instead landed in a field in north mississippi. the faa says only the pilot was on board, no word yet confirming his identity. it started early today after the pilot took off from to pull a regional airport. the police got word that the pilot intended to crash intentionally, the walmart was closed. that plane flew haphazardly for hours before coming down in the field where police swarmed it and made the arrest. here s our affiliate as that drama unfolded. we have been able to confirm, we have at least confirmed to us that it has crashed, that does not mean they reach the crash location. one of the difficult things about figuring out something like that is just how fast the plane was moving. at its lowe ....
Frequently between 1000 feet and 2000 feet of the ground. and then tracking to the north. and then towards ripley, where it finally landed in a soybean field. so, circling the skies for hours like it was clearly done, how dangerous is that, jeff? what kind of a threat does that pose for other aircrafts in the area? it depends, alex, normally if the airplane circles like that, it should be done in a non congested airspace. and a time when the pilot is communicating with other pilots in the area to maintain separation. so, given the fact that most of the circling was done in a remote area north of tupelo at an altitude that was below where commercial airlines was flying, there probably wasn t too much danger as long as there were no other airplanes ....