Smoke billows from building after a small private plane crashed there (AP/WSJ.com).
Pilot angry at IRS and Catholic Church flies into building
Tax Protester Crashes Plane into IRSAUSTIN, Texas — A pilot slammed his small plane into a seven-story building that housed the local office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today, apparently killing himself and one agency employee. Federal officials described it as a deliberate suicide attack amid a long-running tax dispute. The pilot, 53-year-old Andrew Joseph Stack, also set his house on fire before taking off in his single-engine Piper Dakota around 9:40 a.m. local time, investigators said. More>>
