no fatalities at this point and few injuries and it is incredible as you look at the building and the crash site, it is phenomenal that nobody lost their lives, and to a great extent i credit the public safety folks for getting out here and wrapping this situation up and containing it as fast as they did. rick mayor, as rick sanchez and i look at the pictures of the damage to the building by this plane, it is it does seem miraculous. well, it seems to me, and mayor, maybe you can straighten this out for us that this plane was packed full with fuel, right? it has to be with that much of a fire. in other words, a larger fuel capacity than most single-engine planes and i m not an expert or perhaps you are, or the distance between the airport from where he took off and the place of impact was so short he had a
mean, when it got really close to the highway next to the building, i thought it looked pretty imminent that it was going to hit the building. what happened when it hit the building? did you hear a noils? d did the fire start immediately? black smoke, and people let out screams around me. a few people were crying. it was a pretty crazy scene. mike ernest, i-reporter, thank you for the picture. he sent us a picture on the right side of the screen. we re taking a quick break. we re staying on top of the story. developments in the story suggest that the pilot of the plane owned the plane and also set his house on fire before taking off and flying into that building. this country definitely needs to focus on other ways to get energy. we should be looking closer to home.
but what we know is that the federal officials tell us this is joseph andrew stack who flew the plane into the building, and they said that the plane is owned by him, and his house has been set on fire. and, now they say that he has left this suicide note on this website which ends with the words well, mr. big brother irs man, let s try something different. take my pound of flesh and sleep well. does fact that he is maybe targeting the irs and flown this plane into the building of a local building that houses the irs make it a federal crime? yes, it is a federal crime, and the fbi would be the lead agency in the attempted murder of the irs officials in this case. but in this situation, if it is pretty clear that he did it, and he did it on his own and now he is dead, then, the fbi will be assisting with austin police, because, you know, it is mainly going to be within their jurisdiction, but yes, the fbi
he had just taken off, we understand, from georgetown airport in austin, which means he would have been full of fuel. how much fuel might we be talking about in a single-engine aircraft? somewhere between 50 and 90 gallons in that airplane. weighs about the same amount as an suv. okay. you ve seen the pictures we re showing on tv about the burn coming out of that building? i have, yes. does that seem consistent with 50 to 90 gallons of fuel and setting on fire things on fire inside the building? and maybe some things got set on fire in the building. it doesn t seem to be it was a huge conflagration. i wish he had chosen another way of doing this. i think the building is 100 feet off the ground or something like that. there would be no reason at all for a single-engine flight to be anywhere near that height. no, we ll say it s a seven-story building, that s 70 feet of altitude. no one is flying at 70 feet. this is clearly an unusual
a website registered to stack appears to be a suicide note. the message says that if you are reading this, you are no doubt asking yourself, why did this have to happen? i am quoting now. the simple truth is that it is complicated and coming for a long time. the writer rails against the government and in particular the internal revenue service, and he closes the letter with the words well, mr. big brother irs man, let s try something different, take my pound of flesh and sleep well. the airplane crashed into a building which has a federal irs center and has 190 employees. we have heard from the local fire and police officials moments ago they did not confirm those details, but they say that two people are injured and one unaccounted for, but three of the seven stories in the building have been searched, because the fire is still burning in some of those places. they said that the plane has not been stolen contrary to other reports contrary to andrew