PLANE CRASHES INTO OFFICE BUILDING
Crash site road to remain closed until at least Sunday
Rodolfo Gonzalez AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Investigators survey and mark the scene for evidence around the burned out metal skeleton of a Piper PA-28-236 Dakota airplane in Austin, Texas, on Friday, February 19, 2010. In what authorities describe as an apparent intentional act, a pilot flew a single-engine plane Thursday into a Northwest Austin office building that houses Internal Revenue Service offices, igniting a massive explosion, jolting terrified employees to the floor and triggering a massive federal investigation. The plane was registered to Andrew Joseph Stack III whose nearby home was on fire at roughly the same time. STORY | CRASH PHOTOS UPDATED 12:26 PM | HOUSE FIRE PHOTOS UPDATED 1:48 PM | VIDEO OF THE SCENE
Roughly three decades of anger in online diatribe linked to Andrew Joseph Stack III, the suspect in the plane crash.
- Suspected pilot’s wife: 'Words cannot adequately express my sorrow'
- Stack cleared FAA medical exam last year
- Family, friends gather at home of missing man
- Plane hits Northwest Austin office building
- Man's injury shakes fellow comptroller investigators
- Stunned workers find way out of burning building
- Timeline of morning's chaos
- Building's architect is glad safety features apparently worked
- Witnesses feel effects of trauma
- Plane crash suspect's home mostly destroyed by fire
- Social media speeds up news-gathering in plane crash aftermath
- Shock as friends and I realize we knew suspect
- 1986 tax law change was source of anger
- Editorial: Sense of terror that rattled Austin
Neighbors said they heard a loud noise that sounded like a car crash at about 9:15 a.m. and soon saw flames coming from house.
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