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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 something go wrong? was there an engine malfunction? was this an accident? or was this an intentional...

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, get in that plane and take off? are they kept fueled? >> yes, they are kept fueled. that's the typic...

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 going to be multipronged. not only the ntsb charged with aviation safety accident investigations, but al...

You joining us today and certainly appreciate the experience you can lend to the conversation. you know, you've got investigators from the local level, the fire department, the ntsb, the fbi, already involved at this stage. >> we've got some more details. here's what we know right now. they've checked the first three floors of this building. as you pointed out, there's one person unaccounted for, but the fire itself, for the most part, under control. it is contained, but there are spot fires in this building. engineers are on the scene to make sure that the firefighters who are now going floor...

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, it's fair to say, unknown at this point. there are theorys and i think you're 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 i've been talking to say they have no idea why the man crashed the plane, whether e he was intending to focus on those specific buildings, whether he was trying not to crash the p...