Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas
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Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas
A small airplane crashed into a building in Austin, Texas
Latest updates: Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas - CNN.com
Latest updates: Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas - CNN.com
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Fox is saying that this may be an intentional act
Small Plane Crashes Into Austin, Texas, Office Building - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Looks like someone may have become really ticked off at the IRS.
Small Plane Crashes Into Austin, Texas, Office Building - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Looks like someone may have become really ticked off at the IRS.
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Aircraft crashed into office building
A small aircraft crashed straight into an office building in Northwest Austin, Texas, said several U.S. media
Police have cordoned off streets in the area. The accident happened at ten o'clock in the morning, local time. According to news site KVUE was a single-engine plane crashed into the house. Most windows were blown out by the collision.
Police have cordoned off streets in the area. The accident happened at ten o'clock in the morning, local time. According to news site KVUE was a single-engine plane crashed into the house. Most windows were blown out by the collision.
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Cirrus a/c flown into Texas Tax Office
Someone had a bad day, set their own house alight then flew their Cirrus into the Tax Office, setting that on fire:
Man flies aircraft into Texas tax office after setting home on fire - Times Online
Man flies aircraft into Texas tax office after setting home on fire - Times Online
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Not a Cirrus and intentional so it seems.
FAA Registry - Aircraft - N-Number Results
Also, there is a 'manifesto' on the web of this guy ranting about being screwed over by the IRS.
FAA Registry - Aircraft - N-Number Results
Also, there is a 'manifesto' on the web of this guy ranting about being screwed over by the IRS.
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Yep, just seen, a direct link http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...tin-texas.html
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`seems to have been a piper cherokee, pa28.
lots of fire...50 gallons or so of gasnormally aboard with full tanks.
so
wondering if any other accelerants or explosives used?
mental illness? frustration? `
lots of fire...50 gallons or so of gasnormally aboard with full tanks.
so
wondering if any other accelerants or explosives used?
mental illness? frustration? `
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wondering if any other accelerants or explosives used?
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Watching it via 'I Goog oil'. Number 3 kid looking out of his window to see if he can see smoke. For him, a little too close to home.
It seems that it hit a car before entering the building. Perhaps he wanted to arrive via the front door to make his statement.
Whatever the reasoning, if it can be called that, he did effect an extraordinarily efficient method of spreading the fire - with perhaps nothing but a combination of fuel and a newly forged air inlet.
It seems that it hit a car before entering the building. Perhaps he wanted to arrive via the front door to make his statement.
Whatever the reasoning, if it can be called that, he did effect an extraordinarily efficient method of spreading the fire - with perhaps nothing but a combination of fuel and a newly forged air inlet.
Be grateful he chose a SEP. Fertiliser and Diesel in a truck or van would make a much bigger bang.
Mind you, it's a bit harder to walk in off the street and buy the stuff these days
Mind you, it's a bit harder to walk in off the street and buy the stuff these days
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It seems that there has been a fairly constant undercurrent of suicides in GA. I've been flying for just 10 years and I can remember a few in the UK - and that's just the proven ones (like that bloke off the IOW who said bye to all and went into the sea).
Some people say suicides on the road are common - e.g. judging how many people used to hit motorway bridges but this stopped once the crash barriers were installed (no; they didn't go into the barriers).
The thing which concerns me is that a lot of suicides, especially those involving young people, are "fashionable". There is anyway a sizeable teenage cult of overt depression (the "EMO" kind of thing - ask your teenage son/daughter
) but hopefully not many of those types will be able to get any flying lessons. But crashing planes into buildings is bound to bring along a few copycat cases...
I think it takes a little more "technology" than just mixing those two?
Some people say suicides on the road are common - e.g. judging how many people used to hit motorway bridges but this stopped once the crash barriers were installed (no; they didn't go into the barriers).
The thing which concerns me is that a lot of suicides, especially those involving young people, are "fashionable". There is anyway a sizeable teenage cult of overt depression (the "EMO" kind of thing - ask your teenage son/daughter
) but hopefully not many of those types will be able to get any flying lessons. But crashing planes into buildings is bound to bring along a few copycat cases...
Fertiliser and Diesel in a truck or van would make a much bigger bang.
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CNN has said the plane was a DAKOTA...84 gals of gas on that one...4 gas tanks
one could put avgas into one tank to fly the plane and fill the other tanks with accelerant to make a big fire.
one could put avgas into one tank to fly the plane and fill the other tanks with accelerant to make a big fire.
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Indeed, but you could get an awful lot more stuff into a van and drive that into your tax office...
I just hope this doesn't lead to an overbearing clamp down by the TSA on general aviation. I'm sure Phil Boyer of AOPA is at the TSA right now trying to make sure that doesn't happen.