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 walmarts in tupelo. the plane circled for about five hours above the area. not only above that walmart, but also above nearby neighborhoods and also over a nearby national forest. what is going to be the big question here is what ultimately brought the plane down. i spoke to folks who have flown this type of airline and they say it holds between four to six hours of fuel when it is loaded so that is
time, crash landed into a soybean field, we have heard that the plane is mostly in tact. witnesses in graves town, mississippi, describe that the person on board this plane came out with his hands up and immediately detained. it is so interesting, sarah, possibly the best possible scenario, the best possible out come of all of this, nobody on board seriously hurt, nobody on the ground seriously hurt. the person who stole this airplane was a lineman at the tupelo aviation facility. he s a fueler. meaning he fuels airplanes and it was fueled the night before so they knew eventually it would come close to running out of fuel but they were able to make contact with this person again via phone in which he informed police he was on the ground and the incident was essentially over. it is pretty incredible, the outcome of this. that he was just 100 feet off the runway and now charged with
pre decent flying knowledge could figure this out. but the real question is how they responded if this airline did run out of fuel. what it is telling to me right now is that in that image of the airplane in the field, there is no apparent signature, there is no apparent sign of a fire. if the plane was full of fuel, that could be a possible outcome as well. the fuel is flammable. so, if this airplane did ultimately run out of fuel and signs point to yes, and the engines fail, you can t run engines like this without fuel, obviously, then how they would have been able to fly this airplane if it was turned into a glider. it seems in a way that they lucked out to a degree, that in gravestown, mississippi, this came down in a field and there is not that much around there it is a pretty rural area. so in essence they turned this farmer s field into a runway and