in the air for hours upon hours, the suspect is in custody. the plane is not completely destroyed. there wasn t a major crash, from what you have reported so far. and that no one else, it sounds like, has been injured. have we been able to confirm that there have been no injuries to other people in this incident with the plane finally coming down? reporter: i don t want to overstep out of my lane here yet, sara. we have yet to see photos from the scene. some are popping up on social media, we still have to confirm their authenticity. but so far as i can tell and so far as i have heard from two different government sources, the plane is down, pilot is in custody. it doesn t look initially like this airplane landed at an airport. we re watching on flightaware, the tracking stopped at 10:07 central time, that s 33 minutes ago, the live tracking stopped then, which would line up with these reports of the plane being down and the pilot being in
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
pilot at all? or someone who is very new to this? well, this is someone who knows the system, because if you re at an uncontrolled airport or an airport where the tower isn t open, you don t have to call the tower. if you re flying what s called visual flight rules, vfr, you don t have to file a flight plan, et cetera. the pilot knew they didn t have to get permission. i think it came from oxford, mississippi. this person knew they didn t have to call the tower if they re doing a vfr flight, visual flight rules. they don t have to file a flight plane. and they called the police on a phone, you know, clearly for a reason. they wanted to tell someone what they were doing rather than get assistance from air traffic control or from faa flight services to actually make the flight. so i do think it s significant that they called the police and did not contact air traffic control or faa, to the point that we know. now, we don t know those things yet. but apparently the transponder on the pl
end safely and the person who is piloting this plane, we don t know whether this person is a pilot, if he lands safely at an airport. we ll see. pete muntean, thank you for those details. the person piloting the plane called police at some point this morning and said they re going to crash the plane into a walmart. that has not happened. what we have so far seen is that the plane continues to go around and around and around over clearly a neighborhood, because people are taking video of this plane. we are going to be joined now by cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem as well as cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo. thank you, ladies, for joining us. thank you. juliette, police have said they were in contact with the pilot, that the pilot said he