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.

[Moose4]

I thought I read upthread where the plane was a Cirrus SR-22? If so, it has a capacity of 92 gallons of gasoline. You could start a hell of a fire if you hit a building at 150 miles an hour and 80-90 gallons of gas dispersed and ignited.

}:-)4

[Pan_Yan]

I beat you by 119 posts.

[milwguy]

That sounds about right in terms of fuel tank. It just seemed the spread of the fire horizontally was quite extensive for a small plane. Also, one witness I heard said it was quite an explosion. Now hearing the man set fire to his house before taking off in his plane. Unconfirmed, but if true it is terrorism either Jihadi or domestic.

[Osage Orange]

Yes, the buildings were large w/ black glass

Well that settles it...the pilot is a racist.

[Army Air Corps]

For TX it’s high.

You are kidding, no?

[Marty62]

Oh yeah,
they are probably scouring photos of the TP rallies to find his picture.

The way Fox is trying to turn this story is weird.

[ModelBreaker]

“Next thing you know, they’ll be linking it to the anti-tax tea partiers.... Seriously”

Of course they will. Timothy McVeigh was one of the best things that ever happened to Bill Clinton.

[Moe Tzadik]

They’re on the other team.

[tiredoflaundry]

That’s a good possibility.

What’s bothering me is they have not released the name.

[hoosiermama]

Did the pilot kill his sibling twenty plus years ago with a tricycle?

[a_screen_name]

I looked for reports of home fires in Austin today. I found one and did a reverse address lookup.
Link to a house matching house fire report>

[OafOfOffice]

we should be able to find that on the news somewhere.

Maybe he was going to lose his house to a tax lien?

Cherokee 140 plane

[Moonman62]

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

I should have said 9400 block. Same area within a few hundred feet.

[ChicagoConservative27]

DUmmies are already blaming Bush and Conservatives. They could care less if anyone died or were hurt. Gotta blow there load.

[ColdWater]

The way Fox is trying to turn this story is weird.

How so?

[Marty62]

Fox has decided that the guy had a beef with the IRS.
Excuse me didn’t the Ft. Hood terrorist get rid of all his belongings.

[rintense]

GMTA!

[Mears]

And 10 + 10 = 20 and this year it will be 10/10/10.

We’d better be careful. :-)

[A_Tradition_Continues]

The Amish have pilots?

Of course...for Pegasus Powered Carriages.

[hoosiermama]

“The system worked” The system: Tell the folks it's not terrorism before any one gets of the scene.