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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...

Negotiators were able to get in touch with him and were able to get a pilot to talk to patterson on the phone. at one point they tried to steer the plane back to the tupelo regional airport and get cory wayne patterson to effect a landing there. they said that he was within 100 feet of making a successful landing, that is a very small distance, then essentially went back around, flew off to the northwest, over a national forest. they lost contact with him, the police did, via phone. and then they were able to reestablish contact with him when he said that he was in the plane still but at this ...