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Undoubtedly, they will know what the registration number was for the airplane that he owned. and if they can find that airplane, then he stole an airplane. if they can't find it, then you can make the assumption. the being registration number on the side of the airplane should correlate nicely and make that investigation easier. >> pete williams is finding out from the law enforcement authorities, the justice people he's talking to, that they believe that joseph stack stole a plane from the georgetown municipal airport. but, again, you have our aviation correspondent, tom costello, reporting t...

You asked, how would you file a flight plan, would you have to? here's the short answer. i wanted to make sure before i said anything. if you're flying above 1,000 feet, if you're out in the countryside, yes, you should be filing a flight plan. if you are flying below that, generally, you don't have to. however, if you are flying in a controlled area, in other words, a terminal area, a zone around airports, you should be filing a flight plan regardless. so flying into the heart of downtown austin, you know, flying near austin's airport, one would think he should have a flight plan, but at this...

Disturbance in that house. >> and kxan is also reporting that at 1:30 eastern time, the austin police department will give some type of update on this investigation here. they're obviously looking into whether this pilot intentionally targeted the irs, which is housed in there. no confirmation on that, but that is one of the pieces of this investigation that'sing bei being looked at at this point. we're still watching the video of the water pouring, floor to floor. they've not moved, obviously, any of this debris. as you can imagine, it's extremely hot. when our own tom costello talks about th...

Personnel indicated by their jackets in and around this building and we're waiting to get more information on whether everyone was safely evacuated. this was sudden. you've got witnesses on the scene who say they heard a roar and then saw a fireball in this very busy part of austin, texas. let me bring in nbc's pete williams. he, of course, covers the pentagon and all aspects of defense for us here. pete, what have you been able to learn? >> all right. this is what i'm told by law enforcement officials on my justice department beat. they say that this morning, local police received a domestic ...

>> all right. let's get to contessa. >> paul mccarthy is nbc's aviation analyst. when you go to these small municipal airports, paul, and you're -- i mean, obviously, if you're an experienced pilot and you own a small plane, you know how this operates. but, a, do you get automatic access to the hangars where planes are kept or the parking lots where planes are kept? >> nowadaynowadays, general tlis some sort of a lockbox operation to let you get in. but typically, no, on a nice day, low altitude flying, you wouldn't have to have a flight plan, particularly if you were not going somewhere, to a...