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 will end, how this story will end. will the airplane run out of fuel? we ve been talking to sources who fly king airs and they tell me it can only fly for between four and six hours if the plane is fully loaded with fuel. that is the track from flighfl flightaware. you can see the plane took off from touupelo airport, circled e airport at a relatively low altitude, then continued northbound over t
Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, as we continue our coverage of israel at war. I am Rosemary Church. 16 days after hamas abducted more than 200 people from israel in a deadly attack the gaza based Militant Group has released two more women from captivity. The hostages identified as Israeli Citizens nurit cooper and yochi lifshitz, were handed over to the red cross at the rafah Border Crossing into egypt. They were carried away into ambulances and taken to a Medical Center in israel to be reunited with their families. Earlier, the daughter of lifshitz told cnn she was relieved her mother has been released, but noted that her father is still being held by hamas along with many other people. This is not a political issue, this is a humane issue. We have lost so many people are going to funerals every day. This is a ray of light, when there is so much darkness. I cannot wait to hug my mom and see other members of my community a
airplane, it s called a beechcraft king air, tell me that if it s fully loaded with fuel, can fly for between four and six hours depending on the model and configuration. that would match up with the time. so we ll see ultimately if it turns out that this plane, you can see it there, that s the actually plane, photo courtesy of flightaware, ran out of fuel and if the pilot was able to make a safe gliding landing into an unpopulated area. to repeat the big breaking news here that just came across the cnn wire, the plane was down that was circling over mississippi after being stolen early this morning over tupelo. and the pilot of that plane, the person that was flying it, is in custody. we know from local authorities that this person was an employee of the airport, which would explain how they were able to get out onto the ramp, the
don t have to climb into the wheel well but you can put something in there, something that has an altimeter strapped to it. all these things are possible and terrorists have been looking at airports and airlines as being their target. they would really love to bring one down because it sends a message, and we have a series of other incidents in the country where people have again across the airport, sometimes not intentionally. one here in jfk where somebody was jet skiing, ran out of fuel. climbed up on to the rocks rockd got on the runway, hoping to be found by security because he was lost. two incidents in december where both at newark airport and phoenix airport, people climbed on to the airport drunk and another man cross-dressed was found wandering for a day. it s happening. how do we fix it. it takes it s not just technology here. i m an old-fashioned security believer and i think you just don t rely on technology. it s important, yes, to have it,
hearing a pilot say this could be a hint to what happened. why could this be a big deal, what could a partial ping be, when a plane hits the water? the ping aspect is above my pay grade. it is incredible what these folks forgive me for throwing that at you. no, it is fine. where i was going with this is that to me, i discussed this on another program was that it is possible that that might have been the last engine that burned, ran out of fuel. when that happens, the airplane is designed to automatically deploy a system, a rat as we call it in the business, and that will allow for electricity and some hydraulics. so what it could have indicated was a transfer of power, very quickly, because that bus may not the bus that powers that satellite system that created the ping may not be on that emergency rat system, if that