Small Plane Crash in Austin

[ScytheRexx]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=7284036

So I hear from a coworker "A plane crashed into a building outside!" and go outside to see smoke rising on the far hill from our office, a large seven-story building I pass often. It is far enough away that I didn't hear it in my office, but the proximity still shakes me up a bit. Hope they find everyone.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Eek. Yeah, that's pretty close to the old house I used to rent.

 

[Dave]

Damn! I'm watching it on CNN. Looks to be isolated and an accident.

 

[ScytheRexx]

It seems the crash might have been intentional. They got a call saying that the possible pilot, the night before (or early this morning, it's a bit sktechy), ended up burning down his house in a rage after having a confrontation with some of his family, before driving away. They found his car at the airport, and his own private plane is missing. While it is not confirmed this is the same guy, I have a bad feeling he either was intentionally targeting the building, or in his depression started to fly and got piss drunk while doing it (they said he was flying low and erratic) before deciding to end his life.

Update: Looks like it was option two, witnesses say the person did threaten to kill himself after leaving the burning house.

Another update: Actually now they are saying it might have been both. The IRS had an office in the building on the third floor, and reports are saying the guy may have targeted the building as a way to kill himself and take out his frustration on the government.

 

[Espy]

Holy crap. I feel so bad for the people involved, both his family and the those from the office building... how sad.

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Looks like the building housed the IRS: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont...ies/2010/02/18/austin_police_say_a_plane.html

So... that might not be a coincidence either...

 

[Dave]

Any word on casualties?

 

[ScytheRexx]

Any word on casualties?

The pilot is the only confirmed death, considering the plane exploded on impact. Earlier they were saying two people were unaccounted for, now it's one person unaccounted for and another in the hospital. The worry right now is that last unaccounted for person.

 

[Shakey]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1

12:49 p.m.: The Internal Revenue Service in Dallas, Texas, told CNN that the building is a federal IRS outsourced building. It said 199 of its employees work there. The IRS said it thinks all employees are accounted for, but they are checking.

It's still pretty early, but it looks like casualties are thankfully pretty low.

 

[Tinwhistler]

http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-andrew-stacks-insane-manifesto-2010-2

 

[GasBandit]

Purported to be from the pilot of the plane?

http://embeddedart.com/

**SNIP**

Anarcho-socialist revenge?

 

[MindDetective]

I guess Tin should have given more than a link cause I'm guessing Gas didn't click it...

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

Purported to be from the pilot of the plane?

http://embeddedart.com/

....better nate than lever

Anarcho-socialist revenge?

.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I am proud nobody quoted the entirety of Gas's post.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

Yeah. Nor did I read even a word of it. I don't give a shit what that asshole has to say.

 

[ScytheRexx]

On the radio, they had a caller that said people should sympathize with the guy after reading that manifesto, the DJ told her she needed to fuck off and hung up. I understand times are tough, but seriously, a man willing to murder dozens of innocent people by crashing a plane into a building does not gain anything near sympathy.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

On the radio, they had a caller that said people should sympathize with the guy after reading that manifesto, the DJ told her she needed to fuck off and hung up. I understand times are tough, but seriously, a man willing to murder dozens of innocent people by crashing a plane into a building does not gain anything near sympathy.

KLBJ? Haha, I was listening to that exact radio thing!

 

[GasBandit]

I guess Tin should have given more than a link cause I'm guessing Gas didn't click it...

Yeah, I should have. I was just trying to preserve it before the slashdot effect took it down.

Purported to be from the pilot of the plane?

http://embeddedart.com/

....better nate than lever

Anarcho-socialist revenge?

[/QUOTE]
Hah, now THAT'S win.


Anyway, having read most of the TLDR, I can tell you this much - this guy was messed up. His diatribe is self-contradictory and shows that he didn't have the ability to function properly as a member of society.

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On the radio, they had a caller that said people should sympathize with the guy after reading that manifesto, the DJ told her she needed to fuck off and hung up. I understand times are tough, but seriously, a man willing to murder dozens of innocent people by crashing a plane into a building does not gain anything near sympathy.

KLBJ? Haha, I was listening to that exact radio thing![/QUOTE]

KLBJ *is* a pretty damn cool station.

 

[Tinwhistler]

I guess Tin should have given more than a link cause I'm guessing Gas didn't click it...

Some people are lazy like that

I read the guy's manifesto. Like I told a guy at work: This whack-job seems like the kind of guy who thinks society owes him something. The kind of guy who tries to get something for nothing and then blames everyone else when it blows up in his face. Sounds like he tried to be one of those whole IRS deniers who believe that you don't really have to pay tax, then later, got busted by hiding his wife's income when he broke down and tried to fix his situation.

with these types of dickheads, it's always someone else's fault, and never their own.

 

[ScytheRexx]

KLBJ? Haha, I was listening to that exact radio thing!

Yup, the half-time show with Charlie Hodge. It's on all the time in my office.

 

[Dave]

Think on this: This guy was so beaten down, so under the heal of the man THAT HE OWNED A PLANE!!

 

[phil]

Think on this: This guy was so beaten down, so under the heal of the man THAT HE OWNED A PLANE!!

Well, just one plane. And it wasn't that big.

 

[Tinwhistler]

well, to be fair, those kinds of planes are only about the price of a modest home. Any poor, downtrodden wage slave making 90 or 100k a year could afford one.

 

[phil]

Sure, but also remember that it was his private plane.... not his private JET.

Now if it were his private dirigible I'd understand. With gas the way it is it's more expensive to NOT own one.

 

[Soliloquy]

For those who haven't read the guy's manifesto, it can be found here.

It's surprisingly well-written for the kind of nut job that would do something like this, (apparently the guy did something like 60 re-writes), but there are a thousand problems with his logic. For instance, one of the things that he's mad at the IRS for is taking his money after he tried to get rich quick by starting some kind of church, so he wouldn't have to pay taxes.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

. . the heal of the man . . .

The Man is a cleric.

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he tried . . . starting some kind of church

so is the madman. Huh.

 

[sixpackshaker]

See, he should have formed a branch of the Church of the Sub Genius. "the only religion that is proud to pay its taxes."

 

[Soliloquy]

So, Fox News is reporting that the only person to die in the crash was the pilot himself.

Apparently a Glass Worker who was on his way to a job site saved five people from the second story of the office by pulling over and using his work ladder to get people down. The worker had to climb up into the burning building to secure the ladder properly, since the people in the building couldn't secure it themselves.

So, in the end: Crazed Psycho kills nobody but himself, accomplishes nothing, and everyone hates him for it. That's about as good as a story like this can turn out, I'd say.

 

[Tinwhistler]

According to the news today, one other person died.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6873108.html

Also:

Within hours of the crash, it was discovered that Stack's $232,000 home had been set on fire. The white garage doors on the two-story brick home appear to have imploded. The back of the house was blown away and smoke rose from the gutted residence for hours.

Yeah, he was so beat down. Heh. What a cock gobbler.

 

[Espy]

Just because it cost that much doesn't mean he HAD that much though.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

Dude had a house, a plane, a whole religion. Man, I got nothing. Not even a manifesto. I'm gonna go run* into a building. That'll show them! That'll show them all.



*Literally run, like on my feet since I ain't even got no car. But I'm nowhere near as fast as Ben Johnson, so I probably won't even dent the wall. It'll really just show them nothing.