Austin Plane Crash: Incident Report and Analysis

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Very interesting article, summary, and anaylysis out of last moonth's Fire Engineering magazine regarding the plane crash here in Austin several months ago.

Austin Plane Crash: Incident Report and Analysis

Jun 1, 2010

BY GEORGE BLACKMORE

On February 18, 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small single-engine aircraft into the Echelon I office building at 9420 Research Blvd. in Austin, Texas. Prior to that, he had set fire to his own residence approximately two miles from the Echelon I building, drove 15 miles to the Georgetown Municipal Airport, and took off heading straight for the Echelon I building. The night before, he had posted a rambling manifesto on the Internet complaining bitterly about the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Stack died in the plane crash, as did one innocent civilian employee in the building.

http://www.fireengineering.com/index/articles/display/5293485089/articles/fire-engineering/volume-163/Issue_6/Features/Austin_Plane_Crash_Incident_Report_and_Analysis.html

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Very interesting article about a small frame (General Aviation) GA aircraft. Teaching the ARFF class I mostly concentrate on "what if" a large frame bird goes down? In this case the aircraft was a single engine plane and look at how the incident escalated. Great reading to learn by!