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
Want to do which is a full roll back. and i ll let john honeycut who is the s.o.s. space launch program manager explain why they did not want to do that. here he is speaking at a press conference on thursday night. the big thing that we want to avoid is roll backs to the v.a.b. those are the those are the things that dr. bevins has told me will put more stress on the vehicle than anything else. now, that said, we ve still got roll left in the vehicle. but we want to watch that and manage it. reporter: so, sarah, a rollback always a likely scenario or a possible scenario. but as john honeycut just said, that is not what they wanted to do. because yes they re trying to roll this back at about 1-mile-per-hour on an ancient