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
cloud of smoke pouring from it and the color of the smoke would indicate that firefighters have not gotten there yet, not really gotten a handle on the flames. a single engine plane, probably carries upwards of, oh, 50 gallons of fuel or so, obviously very flammable, and that has done quite a bit of damage. witnesses report that windows were blown out of the office building, no word yet on any injuries. jamie: certainly they ve responded in a major way and we re hearing it is a seven story building, it did happen after 10:00 a.m. local, so we would assume that people would be in this building working at the time. jon, the closest airport to austin, potentially? jon: it s probably one of the general aviation airports and there would probably have to be several of them. i ll have to get ton the internet and look at that. jaime by the looks of the smoke, it is still very much needs to be gotten under control. jon: let s check in with tim gaughan, at the assignment
that pilot. nothing to indicate that this is terrorism-related, says the fbi, and the fbi offices, which originally were reported to be in this building, are not, in fact, in that building. they are in a building nearby. this could be nothing more than just a freakish and tragic accident. again, no reports of how many people have been injured in this. you have to assume that the pilot of the plane did not survive. but how many people working or visiting in that office building, we don t have a count on that yet. jaime and the question jamie: , and the question, you raised that issue of the young man who stole a plane around the time of 9/11 and crashed into an office building, we don t know if that was actually an experienced pilot or could be this plane was taken by someone who didn t know how to fly. it s about 15, 20 minutes, this building, from where the airport, we would assume, if there was a departure, the flight came, from and that is a very busy airport and these skies are b