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Embarrassment to the secret service and the f.a.a. and even though it wasnt a government building a 5-year-old boy crashed a single engine plane in office building in tampa in 2002 after leaving a note indicating that he supported osama bin laden. with us now to talk about the suspect in the plane crash today is patrick beach. patrick says he played in a pickup band with joe stack. also a feature writer for the statesman newspaper and statesman.com. good to talk to you, thank you. >> good evenin...

Morning, what can you tell us? >> considering the amount of damage here and it is quite massive, it does raise questions as to whether andrew joseph stack loaded that plane with some other type of fuel. lets walk through what happened yesterday. around 10:00 investigators say that andrew joseph stack flew that single engine plane into the lower portion of the building. about 200 people were inside. many of them federal government workers, irs workers. about 13 people were injured. two seriously....

Okay. we want to get you back to the breaking news that weve been following the last 15, 20 minutes or so. a single engine plane apparently has crashed into a building here, an office building. its beginning to take on the feel that maybe were talking about some kind of a government building office park here. this is in austin, texas, right now, northwest austin. and we have some additional information from our affiliate station there. i hope its one of our affiliates, kvue in austin. heres the ...

So as soon as we hear something of significance, well be happy to pass that along, tony. >> call us, hit us up with an e-mail, whatever it takes to get us that information. ed lavandera is actually in tyler, texas, right now. but as you heard, he lived in the austin area a lot of years and knows that area very well. so as ed mentioned, this is an area thats undergone a lot of development recently. weve got a number of buildings, you know, office buildings in this area right now. we have got a sm...

Point. two people unaccounted for. have no idea how many people might have been on board the small aircraft. but again, were talking about a small aircraft that smashed into this building. a single engine plane was the last bit of information that i received on the plane. and this is in northwest austin, texas. the crash happened near mopac and highway 183. smoke, as you can see, and well roll it in again from this ireport, smoke just came pouring out of the building. and one of our ireporters w...

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 thi...

Whether it gives us some indication this was a deliberate attempt to flew right into the irs offices at the building what we can also tell you as weve been reporting throughout the day, joseph stack does, indeed, own a piper cherokee, a fixed single engine plane. it matches the address for his software business in california. therefore, you can deduce this is a man who was experienced in at least flying piper cherokee planes. as weve also been reporting throughout the day is a widely flown plane...

Of structure is falling inside after the impact of that small plane into this building. if there is internally anything falling. so moving people away from the danger inside that building is paramount right now. so thats what im working on, just finding out what those efforts are and what were hearing is the austin resident agency office of the fbi. back to you guys. jon: you can see as harris pointed out, you can see tremendous damage done to the front of that building, the facade of that build...

Plane went in about an hour ago. youre looking at -- i guess that would be facing southeast, that facade there, and as jack said, if you are with us, there were two buildings, mostly twins, and they were all just black glass -- >> jon: that is local coverage from ktbc in austin, texas, as we continue to cover the big story of the hour, and certainly the big story for them, apparently a small plane, a single engine plane, that for reasons still unknown smashed into that building that you still se...

Pictures that there are dozens of fire trucks on scene and police are still shutting down surrounding roads, its 360 and 183, which are the main thorough fares there, and theyre saying that the danger is lessening. jon was talking about the likely state of the pilot in this particular crash. it does seem to have done substantial damage to the building. will there be enough for investigators to come in and determine what will be their steps theyll take initially to determine why this happened? >>...