Plane crashed into Federal building
A Cirrus SR 22
aircraft rammed into the second floor of a federal building in Texas that housed
the Internal Revenue Services’ (IRS) Criminal Investigation Unit and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field offices. According to a FBI
spokesman, there were no indications of a criminal plot or a terrorist plot. The
impact of the crash was such that the second and the third floors of the
building caught fire. According to sources, the pilot of the plane was Joseph
Andrew Stack and had burned down his house before taking up the suicide
mission. He had also left a suicide note on his website in which he had faulted
the functioning of the US government, specially the IRS and the taxation
system. According to reports about 200 employees had been evacuated. One person
went missing and two people were injured. As a precaution, two F-16 fighter
jets as a precaution.
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