Small Plane Crashes into Office Building in Austin, Texas

News 8 Austin ^ | 2/18/2010

[sportutegrl]

News Alert, single engine plane plows into building in Austin, Texas. Building houses FBI.

[Broker]

What is the exact street address of this new Ground Zero??
Food for Google search.

[Eaker]

he makes wooden stools.

No wonder he is angry!

[mnehring]

I am going to take a bet that it was a small trainer out of “Birds Nest” airport either attempting an approach or touch and goes and there was a medical incident.

[Pan_Yan]

Just to be technical, 30 stories plus is a highrise. 10-30 is a midrise. 9 or below is a low rise. I manage a 7 story office building.

[angcat]

They don’t care about that. They consider this a victory. Any fear that put into the American people is a victory.

[Ben Barrack]

CORRECTION: Eyewitness account says the building DOES NOT house the FBI but it DOES house the IRS.

http://barracknow.blogspot.com/2010/02/eyewitness-report-says-plane-in-austin.html

[WaterBoard]

Photo from a guy's Twitpic

[txhurl]

KLBJ590 AM has the name of the pilot, he burned down somebody’s house in Scofield Farms last night.

[sportutegrl]

Do either of you remember a similar incident right after 9/11 when a young man flew a small plane into a high rise in Florida? I remember there was no smoke at all.

[DYngbld]

damage to the building beyond what a small plane would have done

must have had explosives planted in the building before hand, proving an inside job. Bush's fault. move along. /sarc

[melancholy]

Not if it’s loaded with diesel fuel and fertilizer.

I thought the same, more or less.

We may get a claim from a terrerist organizatin taking responsibility. Whether it would be right or wrong, remains to be seen.

Screwing up 0kaka will be considered an Islamists' national sport.

[AnnaZ]

omg... lol... post of the day!

[NewLand]

Homeland Security has already determined it is not terrorism

[silverleaf]

aiming at US govt offices, maybe it doesnt even matter what agency - or his pre flight intelligence about where the FBI was located was a bit off

[paulycy]

Everything's up to date in Kansas City

;0)

[mnehring]

183 & MOPAC in Austin.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tx+183+Austin&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=46.812293,72.158203&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=U.S.+183,+Austin,+Texas&ll=30.376726,-97.734203&spn=0.025065,0.035233&t=h&z=15

[rustbucket]

Austin Channel 8 (24 hour news) reports the plane hit a Lexus on the ground then hit the lower level of the building.

[Marty62]

Asmall cessna produces raging flames like 9-11...yeah right.

Fox is trying to say it is normal for a plane to fly low over freeway and then bank sharply into a building. WHO KNEW!

[reagan_fanatic]

ABC reporting top of the hour that Homeland Security has already determined it is not terrorism related

Talk about your knee-jerk reaction. Shameful.

[Deo volente]

If this ends up being some white, Republican conservative upset about a tax lien, you’ll be hearing nothing but the word “terrorism” for weeks on end, with a capital “T”.