Texas man, Joseph Stack III crashes plane into IRS office

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Joseph Stack III was the software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas office building containing nearly 200 Internal Revenue Service employees. He killing himself and at least one worker, apparently left behind an irate anti-government manifesto but offered little other hint of his intentions before the attack.

The wife of A. Joseph Stack III told the Red Cross that she is planning to contact media and answer questions on Friday, February 19, 2010. She spoke on condition of anonymity that her husband apparently set fire to their house and posted his rambling screed on the Web before launching his suicide attack

"He didn't rant about anything; he wasn't obsessed with the government or any of that. ... Not a loner, not off in a corner. He had friends and conversation and ordinary stuff," said Pam Parker, an Austin attorney whose husband played in a band with Stack.

In the self-described "rant" dated Thursday and signed "Joe Stack (1956-2010)," the author fumed about the IRS and wrote, "Nothing changes unless there is a body count."

The pilot took off in a four-seat, single engine Piper PA-28 from an airport in Georgetown, about 30 miles from Austin. He flew low over the Austin skyline before plowing into the side of the hulking black-glass building just before 10 a.m. Flames shot from the building, windows exploded and terrified workers rushed to get out.

Emergency crews originally said people were missing inside the building, but later recovered two bodies. Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck declined to discuss the identities of those found, but said authorities had now "accounted for everybody."