Plane safely lands after pilot threatened to crash in Mississippi

Earlier, the police department in Tupelo, Mississippi said they had been talking directly to the pilot and had evacuated the Walmart and a gas station.

Tracking data from Flightradar24.Com shows how the pilot flew around in circles over tupelo for hours before landing.

The Daily Journal, citing multiple sources, said the plane was down in Ashland, a sparsely populated part of Mississippi, and the pilot was still alive.

An image on social media from the Starkville Daily News showed a small plane in a field.