those people that were transported may have been the pilot. harris tracking this with jon and myself and we ll go to her now to see what additional information she has. haste. harris: i want to hearken back to something that jon said that s really key. when i spoke to the officials at the austin bergstrom airport and they confirmed, no, the plane did not take off from here, they said what s really important for them is there wouldn t have necessarily been a flight plan. and had there been we might have had some kind of context into where this plane was going, whether or not it was intentional. but we don t know because we don t have is a flight plan, and that was something that the person at that airport was working directly with the faa with because they still feel somewhat responsible for getting information out there because they are the largest airport that would have been near all the aviation centers, and they feel like they want to get to the bottom of this because if there was
completely accidental, perhaps a pilot who had some kind of a problem with his or her aircraft, simply was not able to control it, and hit this building in austin, texas. let s take a look at the map that our gravics department has put together. it shows the location of birkstrom airport, which is believed to have been either the takeoff location or the possible landing location for this flight. bir bergstrom airport, to this building, and as i understand it, it is separated by about 15 miles. now, we are told by one of the fbi spokesmen that their building does lie in the flight path there. jaime that was interesting, though, that he hadn t heard about planes coming in this area, if he worked in that building every day. he said it would be an unusual occurrence. it s good to have clarification from the fbi that they don t consider this to be anything other than a tragic accident. but of course, as we were
different block in that particular area. jamie: actually, we ve also just learned, if we could ask you to stand by, robert, that the closest airport is austin birkstrom airport, and that is where small and large corporate and domestic airlines fly out and harris just got off the phone with that airport. what did you learn? basically that would be the airport closest for service for this plane. what i haven t been able to determine, if there was a takeoff or landing attempt that would have been happening at that airport. they re searching for that information right now. the gentleman as the gentleman on the line just pointed out, there s a lot of activity in the skies and that airport is actually fairly busy with its corporate and domestic airline service, so they re going to look and see if they were either receiving or watching that particular plane depart. to seek to jon s issue, too, kind of want to clean up, because as information comes in, you know, we re kind of going throu
from the building, and so we assume that they are still working on this as an active fire scene, trying to get anybody that might be in this building out of the way. at least it was early in the day, perhaps some people arriving for work, perhaps not all. jon: it is described as the echelon building, 9400 block of research boulevard, in the austin area, and even,o again, we do not know, there is a general aviation, a light plane airport not far or in the general quadrant of the city where this took place, we don t know whether this was a plane that took off from there, whether it was trying to land there, whether it had any relation to that airport whatsoever. again, a whole lot of mystery underway right now. but a small single engine plane has plowed into the front, or into one facade, i should say, of that building that you see there in the center of your screen, and among other things, the building houses the local offices of the fbi. jamie: and it is a seven story building, so in
able to try to confirm with that airport whether they even knew this plane was in the area, whether it had taken off from that airport, whether it was expected to land, or whether or not there was no report of this small private plane reported in the area. and we re going to continue to watch as we see the firefighters are trying to put out the flames. we do have some great pictures and we know that the traffic in that area is also being diverted for safety reasons. jon: we understand that the building has fires everywhere from the second to the fourth floor. you can see firefighters doing a pretty great job of getting those fires out. an fbi spokesperson says there is nothing at this point to indicate that this is terrorism-related. the building does lie along a flight path, probably to that airport that harris was just speaking about. so a plane that might have had some kind of a mechanical problem, if this might have been simply an unavoidable object on the ground for that plane or