Plane Crashes Into Building, Pilot Revealed As ‘Anti-Government’

AUSTIN -Emergency crews have found a body in the wreckage where a small plane smashed into an Austin office building.

Police Chief Art Acevedosaid Thursday that the body was found in the building. He declined to say whether it was the pilot.

Authorities say a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency by crashing his small plane into the building that contains nearly 200 IRS employees. The crash set off a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives.

Acevedo says along with the pilot there is only one other person unaccounted for.

Before the crash, about five miles from the crash site, Stack’s home was heavily damaged by a fire that law enforcement officials suspect he set. A neighbor says a woman and her teenage daughter arrived at the house and were “very, very distraught” to find their home burning.

According to California Secretary of State records, Stack had a troubled business history, twice starting software companies in California, one here in Riverside County in Corona,that ultimately were suspended by the state’s Franchise Tax Board.