Post-COVID times mental health crises reaches another peak today.

[Amol S.]

In Tupelo Mississippi, an airport employee must have had a mental breakdown. The employee stole a a 1987 Beachcraft C90A from Tupelo Regional Airplrt, and threatened to crash it into a Walmart just after takeoff. The aircraft flew for 5 or more hours over northeastern Mississippi, before coming down. The airport employee has been arrested.

Man stole plane, threatened to crash into Mississippi Walmart before safely landing, governor says

Mississippi Governor\u00a0Tate Reeves announced on Twitter that the “situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

www.usatoday.com

Plane circling Mississippi lands in field. Source says pilot is in custody after alleged Walmart threat

A pilot who police said threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning is still airborne.

www.cnn.com

Pilot Lands After Threatening to Crash Small Plane Into a Walmart (Published 2022)

The pilot took a plane from a Tupelo, Miss., airport on Saturday and flew erratically for hours, officials said. After negotiators convinced him to safely come down, another pilot talked him through landing.

www.nytimes.com

Over at Fox News, the racist Fox News cheerleaders are spreading conspiracy theories that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

 

[Captante]

I saw that story this morning .... the idea that "everything is fine" out there IRL right now for most working folks in the US is 99% smoke & mirrors and I expect we'll be seeing more "acts of desperation/mental illness" like this in the near-future.

 

[allisolm]

Over at Fox News, the racist Fox News cheerleaders are spreading conspiracy theories that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

So much for Fox news. Cory Patterson

Pilot Cory Patterson lands stolen plane safely after threatening to dive bomb Mississippi Walmart

Shaky footage posted to Facebook showed the plane down in Ashland, Mississippi, about 60 miles northwest of Tupelo, where the Walmart he targeted is located.

nypost.com

 

[eelw]

Okay not a laughing matter, but lol at the flight path

N342ER Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Track N342ER flight from Tupelo Rgnl to Somerville, TN

flightaware.com

 

[iRONic]

I worked with a young man back in the mid 80’s who took his own life in a similar manner. Rented a C-152 just like he’d done for months and simply flew into the Gulf of Mexico until he ran out of fuel.

 

[pcgeek11]

In Tupelo Mississippi, an airport employee must have had a mental breakdown. The employee stole a a 1987 Beachcraft C90A from Tupelo Regional Airplrt, and threatened to crash it into a Walmart just after takeoff. The aircraft flew for 5 or more hours over northeastern Mississippi, before coming down. The airport employee has been arrested.

Man stole plane, threatened to crash into Mississippi Walmart before safely landing, governor says

Mississippi Governor\u00a0Tate Reeves announced on Twitter that the “situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

www.usatoday.com

Plane circling Mississippi lands in field. Source says pilot is in custody after alleged Walmart threat

A pilot who police said threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning is still airborne.

www.cnn.com

Pilot Lands After Threatening to Crash Small Plane Into a Walmart (Published 2022)

The pilot took a plane from a Tupelo, Miss., airport on Saturday and flew erratically for hours, officials said. After negotiators convinced him to safely come down, another pilot talked him through landing.

www.nytimes.com

Over at Fox News, the racist Fox News cheerleaders are spreading conspiracy theories that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

I watched this story on Fox News this morning until long after the plane was landed and they didn't make any remarks to the effect that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

Do you have a link to back up this claim?

 

[Amol S.]

I watched this story on Fox News this morning until long after the plane was landed and they didn't make any remarks to the effect that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

Do you have a link to back up this claim?

It seems you did not read my post, or just skimmed thru it and missed the word "cheerleaders". Fox News chearleaders are basically the racist commentators in the Fox News website comment section.

 

[skyking]

It does not mean shit in the grand scheme of things. One guy doing some high profile "look at me" and people are attributing some special meaning to it, while thousands suffer in quiet desperation or take their own lives in mundane ways.

 

[Leeea]

Working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for months at a time can have that effect on a person

hope he gets the help he now needs.

 

[alien42]

this thread's title is as dumb as Faux News.

not surprising coming from Amol S.

 

[Amol S.]

this thread's title is as dumb as Faux News.

not surprising coming from Amol S.

Why do you criticize every single one of my posts negatively, and never positively? Why don't you criticize the post of others negatively and only pick on me.

Here is a gift from me, a nice pic that can be your profile pic alien42. Its a pic of you and your friend aliens.

 

[Amol S.]

Working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week for months at a time can have that effect on a person

hope he gets the help he now needs.

Looks like random sharpie squiggles over the map of Mississippi.

 

[Captante]

Why do you criticize every single one of my posts

No worries ... it's only because he wants to date you!

Seriously that a$$-clown is nothing but a moronic troll.... don't even grant him the dignity of a rational response.

 

[blackangst1]

In Tupelo Mississippi, an airport employee must have had a mental breakdown. The employee stole a a 1987 Beachcraft C90A from Tupelo Regional Airplrt, and threatened to crash it into a Walmart just after takeoff. The aircraft flew for 5 or more hours over northeastern Mississippi, before coming down. The airport employee has been arrested.

Man stole plane, threatened to crash into Mississippi Walmart before safely landing, governor says

Mississippi Governor\u00a0Tate Reeves announced on Twitter that the “situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

www.usatoday.com

Plane circling Mississippi lands in field. Source says pilot is in custody after alleged Walmart threat

A pilot who police said threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning is still airborne.

www.cnn.com

Pilot Lands After Threatening to Crash Small Plane Into a Walmart (Published 2022)

The pilot took a plane from a Tupelo, Miss., airport on Saturday and flew erratically for hours, officials said. After negotiators convinced him to safely come down, another pilot talked him through landing.

www.nytimes.com

Over at Fox News, the racist Fox News cheerleaders are spreading conspiracy theories that the airport employee was African American, or Muslim, or both.

Funny because Fox local is reporting him as white. See pic below.

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/09/720/405/IMG_0001.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

 

[blackangst1]

Why do you criticize every single one of my posts negatively, and never positively? Why don't you criticize the post of others negatively and only pick on me.

Here is a gift from me, a nice pic that can be your profile pic alien42. Its a pic of you and your friend aliens.
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Because youre an idiot.

 

[BoomerD]

Something pretty similar happened up here 4 years ago:

Security alert at Seattle's SeaTac airport after plane 'took off without permission'

F-15 fighter planes gave chase after ‘suicidal, single male’ stole a Q400 plane from a maintenance area

www.theguardian.com

only...it didn't end nearly as well.

 

[pcgeek11]

It seems you did not read my post, or just skimmed thru it and missed the word "cheerleaders". Fox News chearleaders are basically the racist commentators in the Fox News website comment section.

OK, I didn't see that you were talking about the public commenters. I read it as the Fox News reporters.

I stand corrected.

 

[Captante]

Because your'e an idiot.

True, however in this case @Amol S. is a FAR LESS egregious idiot.