A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees on Thursday, officials said, setting off a raging To enable wide dissemination of news that is in public interest, we have increased the number of articles that can be read free, and extended free trial periods. The writer also talks about two conflicts with the IRS, one of which began because he had not filed an income tax return. As we fight disinformation and misinformation, and keep apace with the happenings, we need to commit greater resources to news gathering operations.
"I call it a cowardly, criminal act and there was no excuse for it," Acevedo said at a news conference.The FBI identified the pliot as Joseph Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer. "Stuart Newberg, who was in the area right before the crash, said the plane was flying low and fast when it plowed into the building, according to The Statesman.com.“It was flying low and fast and I did a double take," Newberg said, according to the Web site. Pilot crashes into IRS building. Up next. The four-story office building housed an IRS field office occupying the top three floors, along with a couple of private businesses on the first floor. A pilot furious with the IRS crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, ignited a raging fire. Wantjustice . "He told the paper he thought the plane seemed “very controlled.”In a neighborhood about six miles from the crash site, a home listed as belonging to Stack was on fire earlier Thursday. “I didn’t lose my footing, but it was enough to knock people who were sitting to the floor,” he said.In what appears to have been his suicide note, Stack is believed to have written:"If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?' "I thought it was a play remote control plane.
Police have yet to recover Stack's body, but they presume he died in the crash.
In 1998, the Stacks divorced and a year later his wife filed Stack obtained a pilot's certificate in 1994 and owned a About an hour before the crash, Stack allegedly set fire to his $230,000About ten minutes later, his plane descended and collided at full speed with Echelon I, a building containing offices for 190 IRS employees, resulting in a large fireball and explosion.On the morning of the crash, Stack posted a suicide note on his website, embeddedart.com.In the note, he begins by expressing displeasure with the government, the The note also mentions Stack's having issues with taxes, debt, and the I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. In the Internet posting, the author rails against the IRS, Washington's bank bailouts and the corporate U.S. landscape, saying it's filled with "thugs and plunderers." The FAA and NTSB officials said they had no information on whether the crash was intentional.
In the aftermath, there was increased debate over the policies of the IRS, and different forms of protest.
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