Plane crashes into Bldg in Austin, TX

[WestEndAngler]

Don't have the details but was watching it at lunch. 2 people in hospital, 1 unaccounted for. Small plane hit building this morning... They have ID'D the pilot they think it may have been intentional.

[007]

It was intentional.......they also reported that it was Bush's fault.

The guy even posted a manifesto online.

[WestEndAngler]

Where is this BS he posted?

[Txrex]

I also read that Katrina, Rita, Ike and the blizzards in the northeast were all caused by Bush's weather machine.................... Sheesh.

[Robalo]

I heard it was a Democratic Party had chartered the plane so they could blame GW Bush. Also heard that Gore's Global Warming caused severe turbulance causing the wings to fall off due to severe icing.

[nokatchin]

at least the IRS was in the building

[nokatchin]

AUSTIN, Texas – A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building that houses federal tax employees in Austin, Texas on Thursday, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.

A U.S. law official identified the pilot as Joseph Stack and said investigators were looking at an anti-government message on the Web linked to him. The Web site outlines problems with the IRS and says violence "is the only answer."

Federal law enforcement officials have said they were investigating whether the pilot crashed on purpose in an effort to blow up IRS offices. The Web site featured a long note dated Thursday denouncing the government and the IRS in particular and cited the Austin man's problems with the agency.

All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

At least one person who worked in the building was unaccounted for and two people were hospitalized, said Austin Fire Department Division Chief Dawn Clopton. She did not have any information about the pilot. About 190 IRS employees work in the building, and IRS spokesman Richard C. Sanford the agency is trying to account for all employees.

Flames shot out of the building, windows exploded and workers scrambled to safety after the blast. Thick smoke billowed out of the second and third stories hours later as fire crews battled the blaze.

"It felt like a bomb blew off," said Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who was sitting at her desk in the building when the plane crashed. "The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran."

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford initially said the plane was identified as a Cirrus SR22, but later said it might be a Piper Cherokee.

"It's so destroyed that it's hard to identify," Lunsford said.

He said FAA has confirmed that the plane that took off from an airport in Georgetown, Texas, and that the pilot didn't file a flight plan.

In a neighborhood about six miles from the crash site, a home listed as belonging to Stack was on fire earlier Thursday. Authorities in Austin would not comment on the house fire Thursday afternoon.

[WestEndAngler]

WOW!

[Gilbert]

this nut case burned his house down and then flew into the building. it was a suicide mission.

[Robalo]

I wonder if my ex-wife was in the building? This was wrong. No one likes the IRS, including me, but an attack on folks working for a living is wrong-hope the sunbeech died a horrible, slow, painful, fiery death. What a chickensheet bastage-why couldn't he just blow his little brain away and leave a note blaming IRS-folks may be a little sentimental about something like that, but not an attack at random gummint workers.

[WestEndAngler]

Here's his final letter... I heard it took him 2 days to draft it finished it late last night. Then today he carried out his plan.

[Hogie70]

Here's his final letter... I heard it took him 2 days to draft it finished it late last night. Then today he carried out his plan.

All I can say is WOW that was a deep and a very well thought out last note... All that told me was he is a well-educated terrorist... I hope he died a slow painful death... In addition, he was the only one that died... WTF is the world coming to... He should have spent a little more time in the bay or in the deer woods and not worrying about chit he is not going to change... What a nut case...

[reeltime]

Iwas in the office doing paper work and one of the salesmans son works in that building and was in it when it was happening.......we were like wholes**t.....he made it out allright

[GGF]

I was in Austin today and in a meeting when it happened so didn't know anything about it. About 10:30 my cell phone started going crazy with people calling and texting.

Another nut job committing a totally meaningless and ineffectual act of Quixotian proportions.

[Moonpie]

A nut job for sure.

Reminds one to never feed beer to AP.
He'll run the boat into the dock. He can't write either