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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...

There -- this was a surviveable event and someone drowned, of course, you'd see water in their lungs and all that kind of thing. all these bits and pieces and factual information will eventually make the bottom line story. but, you know getting them in isolation and trying build a storyline is really unfair at this point. >> you do believe that once we have the black box, we'll be able to put together more information about the story? >> absolutely. because the data on the flight data recorder it will give us an understanding of what the airplane was doing as it went into that thunderstorm. th...

What is the vertical speed indicator saying what is the -- >> so is it normal to slow down in a situation like that? >> you would never slow down as you're approaching. there is a stall speed for a reason. we talk about going into the stall. one of the key things when you get into a heavy stall is the stick shaker. what will happen is the yoke or the the stick which the pilots fly with which literally start to shake. that's when you're entering the very final moments of a catastrophic stall and you'll get alarms going off, as well. so there are a lot of alarms and indications built into someth...

Flying through a super cell. so you really try to avoid it. the air bus does have some very specific flight control features that help the pilot fly the airplane. i'm not so sure those are either helpful or probably less than helpful in the situation when you're in the stall speed, the altitude where maybe you're in a high speed stall or a low speed stall. that's what you get in the thunderstorm. it can really put the air may not out of control. >> i have to admit, i'm a little taken aback. they have impression as i imagine a lot of our viewers do. in the 21st century of testing these out, tes...

Aircraft would have been in a stall position. but if you look at that screen grab down in the bottom right-hand corner it says 535, which is the indicated air speed, clld be awhich would be a normal speed, not a stall speed. >> so that isn't too slow that isn't -- i read somewhere it was 100 knots too slow to maintain flight in an ascent no? >> right. that's what was reported. but converting the knots there's there -- but ground speed and air speed are two different things in terms of winds aloft. indicated air speed is what keeps that aircraft in the air, not ground speed. it has to do with t...