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AP – Smoke billows from a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into the building in Austin, …
By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Writer – 22 mins ago
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.
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[LoungeMachine]

Dupe, see FORD's in FL

[PETE'S BROTHER]

diez-quatro

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Dupe, see FORD's in FL

du·pli·cate (dpl-kt, dy-)
adj.
1. Identically copied from an original.
2. Existing or growing in two corresponding parts; double.

[Nitro Express]

The big governor on revenge is the fear of dying. Once you don't care if you die, you've opened a whole new paradigm. The sky is the limit. You would think this guy would have done more than fly a light and flimsy plane into a building. If you are willing to die, you can do more damage than that if you are creative and motivated. Doesn't sound like he had much of a plan. More like impulsed pissed.

[Terry]

du·pli·cate (dpl-kt, dy-)
adj.
1. Identically copied from an original.
2. Existing or growing in two corresponding parts; double.

[Little Texan]

Terrorists everywhere are watching this story and seeing how easy it still is to crash a plane into a building, only on a smaller scale.

[chefcraig]

Terrorists everywhere are watching this story and seeing how easy it still is to crash a plane into a building, only on a smaller scale.

What's even more frightening is you can fill a van full of fertilizer and diesel fuel, then pretty much achieve the same result. All without needing to take flying lessons.

[thome]

I heard this dude went to one of those, "Never Pay Taxes Again" seminars. I think they advertize in the back of Newsweek and some of those other magazines that Lounge subscribes to.


...and I am sure he had no problem paying for those,.. 8hrs, and the book, and the workbook, and then went home and ...proceded to engulf himself in years of debt to the IRS.

Then he assumed he was the only one they were coming after.

So, he was a fook'n moron from the git go.

Like Lounge!



Hey, I heard DR. Phil has another selfhelp book coming out.

[Nitro Express]

What's even more frightening is you can fill a van full of fertilizer and diesel fuel, then pretty much achieve the same result. All without needing to take flying lessons.

Potasium nitrate and diesel oil. We use to use it on my uncle's farm to blast things because it was cheaper than dynamite. If you know basic chemistry you can make bombs out of lot's of household stuff. Napalm is very easy to make. The thing is the intent to use this knowledge to do harm and picking critical targets. Flying planes into office buildings actually does very little damage. It sucks if you are working in those buildings or have loved ones who go hurt and killed but in a strategic sense, they are stupid targets.

[Nitro Express]

You don't have to hurt anyone to make a point. You have to have a lot of people supporting the cause. A national strike or a national tax protest would have a huge effect. They can't throw millions of people in jail. They can mop up a handful of lunatics though.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

WTF?

Daughter says pilot in Texas IRS crash was a hero