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.

[Jedidah]

FOX should find better people to quote?

Like maybe just appoint their own shadow government that will say what we want to hear instead of going to the folks who are really (very badly) in charge?

Having trouble dealing with reality, are you? It truly is much more comfortable to live in a fantasy world.

I know, I know: you forgot the /s/ tag. ;-)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A reporter in the news conference just said he had talked to a man who said he had been "tracking" the flight of the plane into the building for "quite a while."

Others saying the plane ws flying "unbelievably low."

[prairiebreeze]

Sheesh people. give the poster a break. It’s a multi-story building. For TX it’s high.

[rwfromkansas]

I am not afraid today, yet.

Now, if they attack another building, then my attitude will change.

Right now, I am treating this as a likely accident or just a lone nut.

[spectre]

MSNBC has the best reporting.

They are saying witnesses said the airplane roared into the building and that it seemed "intentional". And reporting other various things that lead us not to discount it was just an accident.

This really could have been deliberate.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

And even if he wasn’t there, they’ll find that photo.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

IRS, FBI *and* CIA.

[TomGuy]

Seems to be massive burning still going on during this news conference:

[prairiebreeze]

Yes, that was interesting.

[fatima]

Really.

[kingattax]

is geraldo on scene ?

[MNlurker]

Doubt it...the administration has probably already supplied it ;)

[gitmogrunt]

They’ll have to order an extra case of that yellow crime scene tape for this one.

[Marty62]

All that empty space and he happens to hit a building after banking sharply into it at high speed.

[BJClinton]

Crap, I just sent in my tax returns to there about 2 weeks ago!

It's not the IRS complex in Austin, just some extra office space.

Your return is fine.

[WaterBoard]

[Arrowhead1952]

Choppers only at Mabry. No fixed wing for the past 30+ years.

[null and void]

Don't forget that the sprinklers could have been disabled:

License suspect had WTC repair pass, but Port Authority did its own work [Tennessee License Scandal]

The pass gave him access to the buildings' sprinkler systems.

[ResearchMonkey]

Certainly seems to be deliberate per report on a local station (Rush pre-empted)

http://www.590klbj.com/Other/Stream.html

[Moonman62]

I found the crash location (9400 Research Blvd) on Google maps. There are no general aviation airports nearby.