Joe Stack Austin Texas Resident crashed plane into Echelon Building

A severely displeased Joe stack crashed a plane, probably his, right into Echelon building after having had enough with Catholic Church, big businesses, U.S government and especially the authorities at the Internal Revenue Service which he mentioned in his suicide note.

The Echelon building in Austin, Texas, into which Joe Stack crashed his single engine Piper plane, housed several businesses and offices including that of FBI and IRS which had nearly 200 people working there. The collision resulted in a huge fire which engulfed the whole building and saw people running for their lives. Joe died as soon as the impact took place while 1 other death and 13 injuries have been reported so far.

Earlier, just moments after the crash, it seemed that U.S was once again under attack and the memories of September 11, 2001 all of a sudden returned to minds and it appeared that the terrorists had this time chosen Austin, Texas to be the stage. Initially, the homeland security officials too were thinking along the same lines and immediately 2 F-16′s were seen taking off from the Ellington Field, Houston and patrolling the skies over Austin. Later the terrorist hand was played down by the police chief Art Acevedo.

Joe Stack, whose real name was revealed to be Joseph Andrew Stack, was a software engineer who lived in Austin. It was reported that before flying his plane into the building he had also set his house, also in Austin, on fire with his wife and daughter still inside. The family was later rescued by the fire department officials.

Joe’s final thoughts didn’t remain a mystery as his suicide note was revealed on the website www.embeddedart.com, on which Joe had channeled out his frustration in the last few days. The last sentence of his statement read, “Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”