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.

[hoosiermama]

Intentional hit on building:

Pilot set his own house on fire and then got in plane and flew it into the IRS building.

[Pan_Yan]

is geraldo on scene ?

That would confirn that someone died.

[ConservativeNewYorker]

Fox is reporting, Pilot set his own house on fire first, before crashing the plane into the building. That looks like a whole lotta damage and fire for a small plane...

[BJClinton]

Yeah, I hate to spread scuttlebutt but it appears to have been a suicide flight.

The guy who owns the plane burned down his home in Scoffield farms earlier.

[jcsjcm]

Wow, now they are saying that the guy intentionally set his own home on fire and then blew this plane into the IRS building.

[prairiebreeze]

MSNBC reporerette saying it seems like a big fire for a small plane. “Expert” comes on and says it could do that damage if it had a lot of fuel in it and would have to be traveling at a high rate of speed.

This expert thinks maybe the pilot was trying to make it to a nearby highway.

WHAT? now saying the pilot may have set his own house on fire!

[tiredoflaundry]

I wish they would give us his name.

[Marty62]

NTSB says it is not an accident

[LibertyRocks]

*cue the “right-wing’s fault” scripts*

[OldDeckHand]

Uh oh. You may be right. This is going to get painted as a “tea-partier gone crazy”. Here it comes. Rush Limbaugh’s fault.

[RummyChick]

what’s the pilot’s name. Have they released it yet????

I am leaning toward nut case..especially since he supposedly caused a fire yesterday....but keeping all possibilities OPEN..unlike our Federal Government.

[cripplecreek]

NTSB is investigating it as an intentional attack now.

[frogjerk]

That picture is unbelievable. That fire spread very quickly.

<truther>This is because of the explosives that were put on the floors secretly. </truther>

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. The guy set his own house on fire and them got into his plane. It was intentional.

[brytlea]

I thought on Fox it said 9240. Maybe I was dyslexic.

[ConservativeNewYorker]

How long before the Libs try and tie this guy to the Tea Party Movement...

[Guenevere]

#296....Just what my relative said.... & the building shares a parking lot with his church.

[Marty62]

Yep soooo the story will be that he is a crazy AMERICAN.

[Deo volente]

(anecdotal) that the pilot had burned down his house the night before....took this plane and caused this.

IRS had a tax lien on his house, perhaps?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. Don’t blink.