Friday, February 19, 2010

Man deliberately crashes plane into IRS building in the US

Map locates Austin, Texas, where a small plane has crashed into a small office building.


  

 A small aircraft crashed into a building next to an FBI office in the Texas state capital of Austin February 18, 2010, local officials said. The plane crashed into a seven-story building at about 10 a.m. CST (11 a.m. EST), said Helena Wright, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department. There were no deaths reported but two people were hospitalized, police said.





An Austin fire department truck is shown at the scene of a fire at a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into a building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010.


 






The charred remains of a building and the plane that crashed into it are shown at the point of impact Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in Austin, Texas. A software engineer, piloting the small plane in a suicide attack on the Internal Revenue Service earlier Thursday, crashed into the office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees.









Two firemen are seen at the home belonging to Joseph Stack, after Stack apparently set it on fire according to two law enforcement officials, Thursday morning on Feb. 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Stack, a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.





The home belonging to Joseph Stack is shown after Stack apparently set it on fire according to two law enforcement officials, Thursday morning on Feb. 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Stack, a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.















An law enforcement officer walks past an engine block from a small plane that crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.






Officials investigate the scene where a small private plane crashed into a building that houses an office of the federal tax agency in Austin, Texas on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010.



 






This undated photo provided by Pam Parker on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 shows Joseph Stack. Officials identified Stack as the pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Austin, Texas office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees.



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