Pilot Crashes Planes Into IRS Building In Austin Texas

Posted 18 Feb 2010 in NEWS

A single engine plane smashed into the side of an Austin office buildling today and authorities are investigating reports that the pilot may have burned down his house down and then steered the plane into the building in a suicidal attack on the IRS, sources told ABC News.

Firefighters put out a blaze caused by a plane crashing into a Texas building.The pilot was identified as Andrew Stack. The IRS has offices in the building complex that was struck.

Eyewitnesses who saw the plane slam into the building said the pilot appeared to be in control of the plane in the moments before the crash.

“It hit it and the strange thing was the engine seemed to me to running at full power. It didn’t seem like the plane was in trouble. It was going full blast. It’s not a very fast airplane, but this thing was really moving fast,” pilot Jerry Cullen told to ABC’s Austin affiliate KVUE.

Beth Jones told ABCNews.com that she was headed downtown on Highway 183 when she spotted the plane overhead and immediately noticed how low it was flying.

“The plane was just coming down,” she said. “He was so low you could actually see him in the

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  1. JFK
    23 February 10, 6:51pm

    You think the tax system is bad in the US. The same $40,000.00 car with 7.5% tax in the US cost almost $45,000.00 in Canada plus PDI, Freight, $404.00 Admin fee, $29.20 tire tax, $200 fuel tax on Q5, $100 A/C tax, $175 Globali, now lets throw in the 13% in GST & PST, lets not talk about insurances. Housing is almost bubble from Niagara, ON to Lewiston, NY, lets not talk about insurance. The Ontario Government will be harmonizing the 5% Provincial Sales Tax and the 8% Federal Goods and Services tax, into a harmonized 13% HST to be a little more widely used. A $1.6M ad campaign on HST neglects costs to residence of an extra $225 a year or more on utilities alone and taxes that are harmonized have a tendency of reappear as itself or something else, need I go on? http://twitter.com/economicblow

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