Software Engineer crashes small plane into U.S. Govt. Building

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0218/Austin-plane-crash-targeted-IRS-officials-say

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Austin plane crash targeted IRS, officials say

The remains of the plane's pilot – believed to be Joseph Andrew Stack – have been recovered. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo calls the attack "a criminal act by a lone individual."

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News vans stop by the side of a highway next to the Echelon office building complex in Austin Tex., on Thursday. Joseph Stack crashed his single engine plane into a building at the site, which houses offices of the IRS.

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The pilot who flew his small, single-engine airplane into an Austin, Tex., office building Thursday morning intentionally targeted federal government employees, according to law enforcement officials.

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This undated photo shows Joseph Stack, the man officials have identified as the pilot of the plane that crashed into an Austin, Tex., federal building on Thursday.

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Authorities said Thursday evening that a body believed to be the pilot had been recovered from the charred seven-story building, which contains Internal Revenue Service offices. All indications are that the plane was flown by Joseph Andrew Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer from Austin with an apparent long-standing grudge against the IRS.

Even though Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo called the
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immediate comparisons to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11, and has led many to call Thursday’s crash an act of domestic terrorism.This was a “deliberate and intentional attack against a federal building,” said US Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) at a press conference. When asked by a reporter if he consider it terrorism, Representative
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definitely needs to look at,” he said.

The Piper Cherokee PA-28 Dakota, one of the smallest airplanes manufactured today, struck Building 1 at the Echelon office complex at 9:56 a.m., 16 minutes after taking off from an airfield in Georgetown, Tex. About 200 IRS employees work inside the office building.

Witnesses said they saw the plane flying low overhead before accelerating and possibly diving before the collision. Thirteen employees were injured and treated at the scene. Two people were seriously injured and hospitalized. One federal employee remained unaccounted-for as of Thursday afternoon, according to Chief Acevedo. “The prospects are not very positive for that person at this time,” he said
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before plowing his airplane into the federal building.

An antigovernment screed apparently written by Mr. Stack and posted on a website registered in his name prior to Thursday's incidents offered many clues into what motivated Thursday morning's events.

“I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand,” Stack apparently wrote. “Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

The company that hosted the Web site took it down this afternoon at the request of the FBI.

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