It appears as a potentially deadly situation was resolved without incident in Roanoke, Virginia.  A region-wide airplane chase was led by a man who wanted to crash a stolen Cessna 172 plane (pictured above) into Smith Mountain Lake.  The plane was stolen this morning before 11AM from the Roanoke Regional Airport.  Evacuations had occurred at Bridgewater Plaza and it sounds like the region was in quite a stir. The man landed the plane and was chased down by the FBI. I thought they shot down planes that were out of control?

The suicidal, runaway pilot did not get approval from air traffic control.   The chase occurred all over South West Virginia.  We put together a map of the points of sighting and interpolated a flight area of the plane.  Thank goodness no one got hurt.

Map is after the break..
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