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Small Plane Crashes Into I.R.S. Building in Texas
Small Plane Crashes Into I.R.S. Building in Texas - NYTimes.com
A man crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex., that houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the authorities said. The pilot was killed. Two people were hospitalized, and one person was still unaccounted for Thursday afternoon.
President Obama was briefed on the situation by his counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, at 12:35 p.m., according to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary. But while the Department of Homeland Security was investigating the crash, federal officials emphasized that they did not consider the case to be a terrorist attack.
Officials said the crash was being investigated as a crime.
The authorities identified the pilot as Joseph A. Stack III. There were indications that Mr. Stack, 53, was a software engineer who had had conflicts with the I.R.S.
The seven-story building, at 9430 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin, about seven miles northwest of the State Capitol, was consumed by flames after the crash.
The plane, a single-engine, fixed-wing Piper PA-28-236 Dakota, was registered in California, according to aviation records. It took off from the Georgetown Municipal Airport, about 25 miles north of Austin, at 9:40 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Four hours after the crash, firefighters were still fighting the blaze, and the authorities were able to complete searches only of the lowest three floors.
"We can confirm that the building that the plane hit this morning includes I.R.S. offices, said Terry L. Lemons, a spokesman for the agency. We have about 190 employees that work at those offices. Were still in the process of accounting for everyone."
Employees and offices of the tax agency have faced threats and even attacks in the past. In December 1995, a bomb in a 30-gallon drum was found in a parking lot outside the I.R.S. office in Reno, Nev., but it failed to explode.
In April 1990, a firebomb packed with a tea bag a reference to the Boston Tea Party and addressed to the I.R.S. was placed in the mail in Royal Oak, Mich. It exploded, injuring a postal worker.
A number of people, including a husband and wife who contend that Americans are not generally required to pay income taxes unless they have declared their income taxable, have been prosecuted. The I.R.S. has called such theories bogus tax-evasion schemes.
Jack Healy contributed reporting.
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Man......people sure hate to give tax!
Small Plane Crashes Into I.R.S. Building in Texas - NYTimes.com
A man crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex., that houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the authorities said. The pilot was killed. Two people were hospitalized, and one person was still unaccounted for Thursday afternoon.
President Obama was briefed on the situation by his counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, at 12:35 p.m., according to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary. But while the Department of Homeland Security was investigating the crash, federal officials emphasized that they did not consider the case to be a terrorist attack.
Officials said the crash was being investigated as a crime.
The authorities identified the pilot as Joseph A. Stack III. There were indications that Mr. Stack, 53, was a software engineer who had had conflicts with the I.R.S.
The seven-story building, at 9430 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin, about seven miles northwest of the State Capitol, was consumed by flames after the crash.
The plane, a single-engine, fixed-wing Piper PA-28-236 Dakota, was registered in California, according to aviation records. It took off from the Georgetown Municipal Airport, about 25 miles north of Austin, at 9:40 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Four hours after the crash, firefighters were still fighting the blaze, and the authorities were able to complete searches only of the lowest three floors.
"We can confirm that the building that the plane hit this morning includes I.R.S. offices, said Terry L. Lemons, a spokesman for the agency. We have about 190 employees that work at those offices. Were still in the process of accounting for everyone."
Employees and offices of the tax agency have faced threats and even attacks in the past. In December 1995, a bomb in a 30-gallon drum was found in a parking lot outside the I.R.S. office in Reno, Nev., but it failed to explode.
In April 1990, a firebomb packed with a tea bag a reference to the Boston Tea Party and addressed to the I.R.S. was placed in the mail in Royal Oak, Mich. It exploded, injuring a postal worker.
A number of people, including a husband and wife who contend that Americans are not generally required to pay income taxes unless they have declared their income taxable, have been prosecuted. The I.R.S. has called such theories bogus tax-evasion schemes.
Jack Healy contributed reporting.
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Man......people sure hate to give tax!