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Small Plane Crashes Into I.R.S. Building in Texas
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 18, 2010 02:48pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | SEWELL CHAN |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, February 18, 2010 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A man crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex., that houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the authorities said. The pilot was killed. Two people were hospitalized, and one person was still unaccounted for Thursday afternoon.
President Obama was briefed on the situation by his counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, at 12:35 p.m., according to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary. But while the Department of Homeland Security was investigating the crash, federal officials emphasized that they did not consider the case to be a terrorist attack.
Officials said the crash was being investigated as a crime.
The authorities identified the pilot as Joseph A. Stack III. There were indications that Mr. Stack, 53, was a software engineer who had had conflicts with the I.R.S. |
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