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gravestown, mississippi. around 10:00 a.m. local time. int not all that far from where it took off around 5:00 a.m. this morning. you could see a beechcraft, a twin engine commuter, seats about six or eight people and we know from authorities in tupelo that this plane was stolen by what appears to be an airport employee. police received a call around 5:00 a.m. central daylight time where the pilot of that plane, actually we dont know if it is way pilot. but the person flying that airpl...

charles. charles: sigh of relief authorities confirmed that the suspect landed the plane in highway 4 in mississippi, for reference about 3 hours north of state capital johnson. authorities say suspect was taken into custody without incident, whether or not he was injured in la landing is unclear right now. we have been call to go local hospitals to see if the suspect was sane for any treatment of any kind. faa is investigating. a spokesperson for the agency released a statement to fox...

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 go...

tupelo mississippi where the sheriffs office says a man is in custody after spinning a twin turbo propeller airplane and threatening to crash it into a local walmart, triggering an evacuation. nbcs covering the story. bring us up to date as to what we know so far, and how it is this guy managed to meant steal the plane in the first place. >> you know, as, minimal start with the most important thing. incredibly, there were no injuries at the end of this. which is really unbelievable whe...

Shut down to help save lives during this critical time. negotiators from tupelo police departments made contact with the contact and were able to convince him to not carry out this deed and to land the aircraft at the tupelo airport. the pilot did not have experience to land an air craft. a private pilot assisted us in helping this pilot complete this. however, it was not completed. upon final approach, the pilot aborted the landing and traveled in a northwest direction away from tupelo towards ...

Negotiatorsfrom tupelo police department made contact with the pilot and were able to convince him to not carry out this deed and to land the aircraft at tupelo aircraft. the pilot did not have experience to land an aircraft. a private pilot assisted us in helping this pilot complete this, however, it was not completed. upon final approach the pilot aborted the landing and traveled northwest direction away from tupleo word union and tifa and denton county. at this time we contacted all of those ...

Upon final approach, the pilot aborted the landing and traveled in a northwest direction away from tupelo towards union, tippa and denton county. at this time we contacted all of those counties and their sheriff to notify them of this incident going on. at approximately 9:32, the pilot posted on facebook a message and in essence it said good-bye. and at this time we know he was getting close to running out of fuel. at 10:08 a.m., faa lost radar contact with the aircraft. at 10:12 a.m., our negot...

Is now a west to northwest direction. to a due west direction. so florida to the carolinas and the georgia coastline. thats why were targeting. >> how should people be preparing for the east coast? >> its about time to look into the evacuation plan. have a hurricane preparedness kit available. this would be sunday night into monday across the southeast coast. all of the computer models the best knowledge we have availale to us shows that is what we expect to see as conditions deteriorate. into t...

Headed in a northwest direction. i watched the aluminum siding peel off the houses, then i ran for the basement. >> this is an every day occurrence. torrential rains turned a chunk of roadway spoo a river in minnesota. several roadways were shut down. >> i flew over there on sunday. unbelievable. in iowa, cedar rapids looked like a swimming pool. there was water everywhere. indra petersons has a look at the forecast. more severe storms in the forecast today. >> that water doesnt have time to d...

That may be total 26 countries. doug luzader joins us live. this search is massive. >> it is massive and getting more complicated. it cracked the aircraft never designed to crack it what it is giving them is a probability saying they were the last communication with the satellite. the aircraft is on an ark either heading in a northwest direction or a southerly route. right now the speculation is it is probably 140 south. it would have been going from dense air sfas tospace. a lot of countries ar...