Monday, February 1, 2010

Austin Pilot



In this picture, it shows smoke billows from a seven story building after a small private plane crashed into a building that houses an office of the Federal tax agency in Austin,Texas on Thursday Feb 18,2010. This plane crash left an IRS employee Vernon Hunter dead and two people injured according to Assistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans. Their conditions and identities were not immediately known. The FBI believes Joseph Andrew Stack left an angry suicide note before he burned his house down then crashed a small plane into the Echelon building in Austin, Texas which houses many IRS employees they also believes the IRS may have been the target. The crash sent workers fleeing as ceilings crumbled, windows shattered and flames shot out of the building. Dozens of windows were blown out the hulking black building.It is also believed that the 53-year-old software engineer may have left a disturbing online manifesto in which he ranted against the IRS, the Catholic Church, tax loopholes, bailouts and his own sorry state of affairs.


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