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Topic: Plane crash into office building in Austin TX (Read 202 times)
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mel
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I interviewed for a job in that building a few years ago, and was actually offered it. Thank goodness I went to ACC instead.
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mel
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I just heard the pilot was being audited by the IRS, and the IRS offices where you go for audits was in the building. From the looks of it, everyone is very lucky that there were not more injuries or deaths. Binswanger Glass seems to be the heroes as there were a couple of their trucks with ladders in the complex at the moment of impact. They immediately got their ladders and started evacuating people out of windows who were trapped by the flames.
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Tami in Tejas
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Thanks Bandman! We're fine....we're on the north side of town, but still not super close to where this happened. The odd thing is, my mom and I go to lunch every Friday just down the street from this office building. So had it been a day later, we would have been just blocks away....I actually found out from Ellyn this morning, who saw the report in St Louis (I didn't have the tv on here) and called to check on us (Thanks Ellyn!!)...turned on our local stations and it was on all three, plus several cable stations. When my dad was still living, he worked in a department very similar to this one at IRS, but in a different location in town. Investigating the crazy letters that get sent to the govt, etc....Made me wonder if he would have known any of the folks that worked at this IRS office...
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mel
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I just heard Police Chief Art Acevedo on the radio say that someone in the IRS office saw the plane coming toward the building and started hollering for everyone to run. He attributed the low number of casualties to that person.
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Karen in NYC
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It was such major news on the NYC stations. Amazing that only two people died - the pilot and one worker in the building.
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texas kaki
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What is wrong with people? Wait......dont answer that.
Its just awful. So sad for all of the people affected by this.
Kinda makes me a little scared though. Everytime I get on a plane I think of 9/11. And, I happen to work in a tall building. We are all thinking around here, what if someone gets mad at our company and flys a plane into our building? I just dont understand how he could have thought that would be the solution to whatever problem he was dealing with .
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