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Time this morning, that local police in austin were called to the home of joseph stack for a domestic disturbance. they said he set his house on fire and took off for the georgetown municipal airport 30 miles north of austin, texas, jumped into his plane, a small piper cherokee, drove it to austin where it crashed into this building. the question is, was the crash intentional? did joseph stack intend to kill himself? ntsb is heading here to sort through the wreckage to determine if there was a p...

Its a commercial building, actually, which houses the irs, that was hit by the plane. now, the big question here, the unresolved question, at this hour, is whether, in fact, mr. stack was targeting that specific building, which houses the irs. did he crash it intentionally to commit suicide or did he crash it intentionally to do that and hit this building as well? that is the big question. no definitive answer. some theorys about what may have happened here, but no definitive indication that, in...

Flames, still see whats burning inside that build. this is tape right now, but we were seeing video earlier of the fire still burning in some parts of this building. contessa? >> tamron, thank you very much. with me on the phone is mary skoo schiavo, a former d.o.t. inspector general. assuming you heard petes report there about this beginning with a domestic disturbance and the theft of a plane, mary, how would inspectors now go about trying to piece together the puzzle of why this crash happene...

But ive noticed talking to people over there, theres a heightened awareness now. its not just fear and doubt. >> again, were listening to a firefighter, a former volunteer firefighter who rushed out to the scene, as he pointed out, you dont see something like this every day, even in his line of work. a huge fire resulting from this crash. lets go to nbcs tom costello. tom, im told youve got some new information for us. >> this is what i wanted to give you a little bit ago, but i wanted to double...

Problem or if there may have been even a medical issue within the aircraft from the pilot. theyll be taking a look and recover the body, doing forensics, working with the local coroner to understand if there was, in fact, a medical issue with the pilot. >> and given what we have learned through investigators, telling nbc, they believe joseph stack and his wife were involved in some kind of domestic dispute at their home in austin, local police were called. joseph stack, they say, the local polic...

And joseph stack himself escaped. police told officials they are investigating whether joseph stack fled right from there, hit the georgetown municipal airport, got into his small aircraft, that piper cherokee, and then flew, about 30 miles from the airport to the site of this particular building and crashed into this building. as pete williams so aptly pointed out, the question is now not necessarily which plane crashed, who was behind the controls of that plane, but the question is, why? did s...

Georgetown municipal airport has presumably more than one plane there, now the question, did joseph stack steal a plane or if he owns a piper cherokee, which is the kind of plane that crashed into this building in austin, but it was registered to an address in california, that address belonged to the software company, do you just -- is that a plane that is kept fueled and ready to go, if he was fleeing, as has been reported by the local police from a domestic disturbance call. could he just go, ...

Other things, obviously, who was the owner of the plane. was there any possible mechanical issue with the plane? how much fuel was on board? was there any additional accelerant or additional fuel on board? they should be able to determine that through a variety of tests they can conduct. they can look at the flight path of the plane, whether they filed any flight plan. although it would, at this point, seem that that is unlikely, if the plane was stolen. but clearly the investigation now is goin...

You joining us today and certainly appreciate the experience you can lend to the conversation. you know, youve got investigators from the local level, the fire department, the ntsb, the fbi, already involved at this stage. >> weve got some more details. heres what we know right now. theyve checked the first three floors of this building. as you pointed out, theres one person unaccounted for, but the fire itself, for the most part, under control. it is contained, but there are spot fires in this ...

Stole the plane, whether it was to escape, whether it was to commit suicide by crashing the plane into the ground, or whether it was to attack a specific building is, i think, its fair to say, unknown at this point. there are theorys and i think youre hearing from the other reports that there are different theorys, which is not surprising, so early in an investigation. but the federal law enforcement officials that ive been talking to say they have no idea why the man crashed the plane, whether ...