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>> at last check, they've tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they've been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday's scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration ...

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...

anyone else. and i believe that we had what you would think would be the best case scenario. >> it was the best case scenario, because nobody was injured. cnn's peteman team and nadia romero joins us now live, thank you both for joining me. pete, first to you, what more have we learned? there were quite a few details in that press conference. >> reporter: the tupelo mayor said something so interesting, that cory wayne patterson, the person piloting the plane, apparently changed his mind. he wanted to hurt people on the ground after he stole this beechcraft commuter plane. it seats si...

several hours. you can see it on screen. you can see the unpredictable path, very unsettling for local authorities in the area. the suspect was taken into custody some five hours later. nadia romero has been tracking this all day for us. also with us is cnn transportation analyst mary sciavo. what are we learning about the suspect and how all of this came to an end? and thank goodness it did, nadia. >> reporter: thank goodness it came to the end it did, jim. that's what we're hearing from the mayor of tupelo. saying he was woken up early this morning by police and fire and he said us...