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story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? >> reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we're coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that's a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this...

cnn's pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o'brien joins me now. pete, let's start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. >> reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they in...

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 don't know if it is way pilot. but the person flying that airplane called 911 and said they were going to steal the airplane and crash it into one of the local wa...

a plane, a beechcraft turbo-prop, owned by a local doctor and took it over tupelo and flying around and around and around and flight tracker is keeping track of what he's up to. hope he hasn't been making good on his threat, but he's running out of fuel in the process. charles watson is in mississippi. >> neil, obviously, this is a developing situation we were here in jackson, mississippi covering the water crisis when we started seeing reports of a man flying low and a plane circling a walmart this morning. we were told from tube low police they started receiving reports this mornin...

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 news saying, quote, a air 90 landed in a field several miles northwest of ripley airport in ripley,...