2010 Austin suicide attack

Suicide by pilot in Austin, Texas June 2025 July 2026 Damage to Echelon complex from 2010 plane crash.jpg Panorama of the building the day after the attack Incident 2010 2 18 Suicide attack due to anger to IRS policies 9430 Research BoulevardAustin, Texas, U.S. 30 23 6 N 97 44 37 W dim:500_type:event_region:US-TX inline,title 2 1 (Vernon Hunter) 13 Piper PA-28-236 Dakota (N86FE, cn 28-8611007) (4-13-2024).jpg A Piper Dakota, similar to the one involved in the attack Piper PA-28 Dakota Privately owned N2889D Georgetown Municipal Airport 1 (Andrew Joseph Stack III) The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota plane into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manager Vernon Hunter. Thirteen others were injured, two severely. The four-story office building housed an IRS field office occupying the top three floors, along with a couple of private businesses on the first floor. Prior to the crash, Stack had posted a suicide note to his website, expressing his disillusionment with corporations and government agencies such as the IRS. Stack is also suspected of having set fire that morning to his two-story North Austin house, which was mostly destroyed. In the aftermath, there was increased debate over the policies of the IRS and different forms of protest. In response to the attack, the IRS spent $38.6 million, with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. An official audit would later determine that the review was badly mismanaged and extremely inefficient. The building was repaired by December 2011. Perpetrator Andrew Joseph Stack III (August 31, 1956 – February 18, 2010) lived in the Scofield Farms neighborhood in North Austin and worked as an embedded software consultant. Stack grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and had two brothers and two sisters. Stack told his daughter that both his parents had died in a car crash; aged four, he was separated from his siblings and sent to a Catholic orphanage. In 1974, he graduated from Milton Hershey School. From 1975 to 1977, Stack studied engineering at Harrisburg Area Community College but did not graduate. His first marriage, to Ginger Stack, which ended in divorce, produced a daughter, Samantha Bell. In 2007, Stack married Sheryl Housh, who had a daughter from a previous marriage. In 1985, Stack, along with his first wife, incorporated Prowess Engineering. In 1994, he failed to file a state tax return. In 1998, the Stacks divorced, and a year later his wife filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing federal tax liabilities totaling nearly $126,000. In 1995, Stack started Software Systems Service Corp, which was suspended in 2004 for non-payment of state taxes. Stack obtained a pilot's certificate in 1994 and owned a Velocity Elite XL-RG plane, in addition to the Piper PA-28 Dakota (aircraft registration N2889D) he flew into the Echelon building. He had been using the Georgetown Municipal Airport for four and a half years and paid $236.25 a month to rent a hangar. There has been speculation that Stack replaced seats on his aircraft with extra drums of fuel prior to the collision. Stack's accountant confirmed that at the time of the incident, he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service for failure to report income.http://news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=267903 Stack in middle of audit at time of crash News8 Austin February 25, 2010May 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes Events About an hour before the crash, Stack allegedly set fire to his $230,000 house located on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin; the house was mostly destroyed in the fire. He then drove to a hangar he rented at Georgetown Municipal Airport, approximately 20 mi to the north. He boarded his single-engine Piper PA-28 Dakota airplane and took off around 9:45 a.m. Central Standard Time. He indicated to the control tower his flight would be "going southbound, sir." After taking off, his last broadcast words were "thanks for your help; have a great day." About ten minutes later, his plane descended and collided at full speed with Echelon I, a building containing offices for 190 IRS employees, resulting in a large fireball and explosion. The building is located near the intersection of Research Boulevard (U.S. Route 183) and Mopac Expressway (Loop 1).November 2025 Suicide note Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas On the morning of the crash, Stack posted a suicide note on his website.embeddedart.com. The HTML source code of the web page shows the letter was composed using Microsoft Word starting two days prior, February16, at 19:24Z (1:24 p.m.CST). The document also shows that it was saved 27 times with the last being February18 at 06:42Z (12:42 a.m.CST). In the note, he begins by expressing displeasure with the government, the bailout of financial institutions, politicians, the conglomerate companies of General Motors, Enron and Arthur Andersen, unions, drug and health care insurance companies, and the Catholic Church. He then describes his life as an engineer, including his meeting with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, the effect of Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on independent contractor engineers; the September 11 attacks, airline bailouts that benefited only the airlines but not the suffering engineers, and how a Certified Public Accountant he hired seemed to side with the government to take extra tax money from him.November 2025 The note also mentions Stack's having issues with taxes, debt, and the IRS and his having a long-running feud with the organization. While the IRS also has a larger regional office in Austin, the field office located in Echelon I performed tax audits, seizures, investigations and collections. The note ended with: I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well. The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. Joe Stack (1956–2010), 02/18/2010 Aftermath Vernon Hunter, a 68-year-old Revenue Officer Group Manager for the IRS, was killed in the incident along with Joseph Stack. Thirteen people were reported as injured, two of them critically. Debris from the crash reportedly shattered the windshield of a car being driven on the southbound access road of Highway 183 in front of the building. Another driver on the southbound access road of Highway 183 had his windows and sunroof shattered during the impact, and had debris fall inside his car, yet escaped uninjured. Robin DeHaven, a glass worker and former combat engineer for the United States Army, saw the collision while commuting to a customer's house for his job, and used the extension ladder on his truck to rescue six people from the 2nd floor of the building. By coincidence, the Travis County Hazardous Materials Team — an inter-agency group of firefighters from outside the City of Austin—had just assembled for training across the freeway from the targeted building, observed the low and fast flight of Stack's plane, and heard the blast impact. They immediately responded, attacking the fire and initiating search-and-rescue. Several City of Austin fire engines for the area of the Echelon building were already deployed at the fire at Stack's home at the time of the impact. Georgetown Municipal Airport was temporarily evacuated while a bomb disposal team searched Stack's abandoned vehicle. An inspection into the Echelon building's structural integrity was concluded six days after the incident and a preliminary decision was made to repair the building rather than demolish it. Those repairs were substantially complete by December 2011.November 2025 Economic costs to IRS The IRS spent $38.6 million after the suicide attack.Accounting for the Austin Incident http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201210074_oa_highlights.html Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration 2012-07-19 3, 4, and 5 July 10, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120926112047/http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201210074_oa_highlights.html September 26, 2012 live mdy-allhttp://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-plane-crash-austin-63334-1.html Austin Plane Crash Cost IRS $38.6 Million MICHAEL COHN Accounting Today July 18, 2012 October 9, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120820032645/http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-plane-crash-austin-63334-1.html August 20, 2012 live mdy-all For the immediate response, document recovery, and resuming operations at the center, the IRS spent $6,421,942. Of this amount, $3,258,213 was spent on document recovery. Also, the IRS spent a total of $32.3 million to improve IRS building security across the United States, with $32.2 million 32200000 2011 "to evaluate and enhance employee safety and physical security at IRS facilities", although it was not explained what physical security measures were intended to prevent airplanes from flying into buildings. The IRS said, because of the 2010 Austin terrorist attack and the emergency plans in place, there was no direct budgetary impact on the IRS's ability to provide taxpayer services or enforce tax laws. An additional $1,236,634 was spent on a security risk assessment to be performed by the private Georgia-based logistical and engineering services firm Unified Consultants Group, Inc. A July 25, 2012 audit, released shortly after the incident cost analysis and performed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, determined that the contract was mismanaged by the IRS.http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields=%7B%22search_term%22%3A%22TIRNO-10-C-00041%22%7D https://archive.today/20121214161520/http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields=%7B%22search_term%22:%22TIRNO-10-C-00041%22%7D dead 2012-12-14 Prime Award Spending Data USASpending.gov 2012-10-08 The security-review process was determined to have had multiple problems, and many of the sites were not inspected by the contractor. The audit placed the blame on the IRS agency's individuals responsible for defining, negotiating, and administering the contract, with potentially 100% of funds having been used inefficiently, and with security improvements at IRS sites having been potentially ineffective.http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201210075_oa_highlights.html An Independent Risk Assessment of Facility Physical Security Was Not Performed in Compliance With Contract Requirements Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration July 25, 2012 October 9, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120926113718/http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201210075_oa_highlights.html September 26, 2012 live mdy-all Reaction The United States Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying that the incident did not appear to be linked to organized international terrorist groups. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs reaffirmed what Homeland Security said, and that President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident. The President expressed his concern and commended the courageous actions of the first responders. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) launched two F-16 fighter aircraft from Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas, to conduct an air patrol in response to the crash. That action was reported as standard operating procedure in this situation. T35 Hosting, the company hosting Stack's website embeddedart.com, took his website offline "due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI." Several groups supporting Stack on the social networking website Facebook appeared following the incident and the news of the accompanying manifesto. These were immediately shut down by Facebook staff.http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/18/20100218plane-crash-facebook-fans-politico.html Facebook fans praise pilot in plane crash Cogan, Marin Politico.com February 18, 2010 February 23, 2010 http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/people-take-to-facebook-to-defend-pilot People take to Facebook to defend pilot Shiff, Blair KXAN-TV February 18, 2010 February 23, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100221060045/http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/people-take-to-facebook-to-defend-pilot February 21, 2010 dead mdy-all http://www.geekosystem.com/joe-stack-facebook-groups-joseph-andrew-stack/ New Facebook Groups Salute Austin Crash Pilot Joe Stack Quigley, Robert GeekoSystem February 18, 2010 February 23, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100221075127/http://www.geekosystem.com/joe-stack-facebook-groups-joseph-andrew-stack/ February 21, 2010 live mdy-all Austin police chief Art Acevedo stated that the incident was not the action of a major terrorist organization. He also cited "some heroic actions on the part of federal employees" that "will be told at the appropriate time." The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that it was investigating the incident "as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer" and that it was not being considered terrorism at this time. https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/61922-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-plane-attack-terrorism/ Muslim group wants government to call plane attack terrorism Yager, Jordy The Hill February 19, 2010 February 23, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100223033855/http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/82387-muslim-group-wants-government-to-call-austin-plane-attack-terrorism February 23, 2010 live mdy-all However, two members of the United States House of Representatives, both of whose districts include the Austin area, made statements to the contrary. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) stated, "Like the larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was a cowardly act of domestic terrorism." Mike McCaul (R-Texas), told a reporter that, "it sounds like it [was a terrorist attack] to me." Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman stated that for this to be considered an act of terrorism, "there has to be some political motive and it has to send a broader message that seeks some policy change. From what I've heard, that doesn't appear to be the case. It appears he was very mad at the [IRS] and this was a cathartic outburst of violence. His motivation was the key."http://www.star-telegram.com/crime/story/1983037.html Experts call Austin plane crash a 'cathartic outburst,' not terrorism Madigan Tim February 20, 2010 Star-Telegram February 20, 2010 A USA Today headline used the term "a chilling echo of terrorism." Citing the copy of Joseph Stack's note posted online, blogger Joan McCarter observed on the Daily Kos website that, "Obviously Stack was not a mentally healthy person, and he was embittered at capitalism, including crony capitalism, and health insurance companies and the government." She also stated that Stack could not be connected with the Tea Party movement, but argued that the incident "should inject a bit of caution into the anti-government flamethrowers on the right."http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/18/838350/-Story-Emerging-on-Austin-Crash Story Emerging on Austin Crash February 18, 2010 Daily Kos February 21, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100221054042/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/18/838350/-Story-Emerging-on-Austin-Crash February 21, 2010 live mdy-all The website Ace of Spades HQ disputed any connection to the movement and additionally stated Stack was not "right wing", citing Stack's criticism of politicians for not doing anything about health care reform.https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0218/Joe-Stack-Antitax-terrorist-or-solo-IRS-hater Joe Stack: Antitax 'terrorist' or solo IRS-hater? Jonsson Patrik February 18, 2010 The Christian Science Monitor February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100220235215/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0218/Joe-Stack-Antitax-terrorist-or-solo-IRS-hater February 20, 2010 live mdy-all In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, who now lives in Norway, stated initially that she considered her father to be a hero, because she felt that now people might listen. While she does not agree with his specific actions involving the plane crash, she does agree with his actions about speaking out against "injustice" and "the government." Bell subsequently retracted aspects of her statement, saying her father was "not a hero" and adding, "We are mourning for Vernon Hunter." Five days after her husband Vernon Hunter's death, Valerie Hunter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sheryl Mann Stack, Andrew Joseph Stack's widow in federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges that Sheryl had a duty to "avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others," including her late husband, and failed to do so by not warning others about her late husband. The lawsuit also mentions that Stack was required by law to fly his plane at an altitude 1,000 ft m 0 above the highest obstacle.January 2018 At a March 8, 2010, benefit event, Stack's widow, Sheryl, publicly offered condolences for the victims of the attack. Former Iowa congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) has made several statements regarding Stack including, I think if we'd abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn't have a target for his airplane. And I'm still for abolishing the IRS, I've been for it for thirty years and I'm for a national sales tax (in its place). Academic and activist Noam Chomsky cited Joe Stack's letter as indicative of some of the public sentiment in the U.S., and stated that several of Stack's assertions are accurate or based on real grievances, and urged people to "help" the Joseph Stacks of the world get involved in constructive popular movements instead of letting the Joseph Stacks "destroy themselves, and maybe the world," in order to prevent a process similar to how legitimate and valid popular grievances of the German people in the 1920s and 1930s were manipulated by the Nazis towards violence and away from constructive ends.UTbfUlGt2Sw "Noam Chomsky on Joe Stack""Remembering Fascism: Learning From the Past" https://web.archive.org/web/20100424092337/http://www.truthout.org//remembering-fascism-learning-from-past58724 2010-04-24 , Truthout.org. The Internal Revenue Service formally designates certain individuals as potentially dangerous taxpayers (PDTs). In response to an inquiry after the attack, an IRS spokesperson declined to state whether Stack had been designated as a PDT. See also Aviation Tax protester Suicide by pilot Notes References 2 http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/community-mourns-loss-of-victim-in-plane-crash-1.2163632 Community mourns loss of victim in plane crash The Daily Texan Bobby Longoria 2010-02-22 February 22, 2010 November 22, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201122235450/http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/community-mourns-loss-of-victim-in-plane-crash-1.2163632 dead http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=267349 2 dead after plane crashes into North Austin building News 8 Austin Anna M Gonzalez February 19, 2010 February 19, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100222221450/http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=267349 February 22, 2010 live mdy-all http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-stack-plane-crash-austin-aftermath-13-injured-two-critically/ Joe Stack Plane Crash Austin Aftermath: 13 Injured, Two Critically CBS News Carlin D Miller February 18, 2010 February 25, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074926/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-stack-plane-crash-austin-aftermath-13-injured-two-critically/ March 4, 2016 live mdy-all http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=2889D FAA Registry – N2889D FAA.gov February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100222202341/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=2889D February 22, 2010 live http://www.globest.com/news/1601_1601/austin/183606-1.html Echelon Building Destroyed in Plane Crash GlobeSt.com Carl Cronan February 18, 2010 February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20120225231009/http://www.globest.com/news/1601_1601/austin/183606-1.html 2012-02-25 dead http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html Remains of 2 found after Austin plane crash CNN Jeanne Meserve Simon, Mallory February 18, 2010 February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100220072734/http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html February 20, 2010 live mdy-all http://media-newswire.com/release_1112649.html News 8, KVUE, and KEYE Covering Austin Plane Crash Into Eschelon Building Media-Newswire.com February 18, 2010 February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100221171946/http://media-newswire.com/release_1112649.html February 21, 2010 live mdy-all https://www.foxnews.com/story/wife-of-pilot-in-texas-plane-attack-offers-sincerest-sympathy-to-victims Wife of Pilot in Texas Plane Attack Offers 'Sincerest Sympathy' to Victims FoxNews.com Associated Press February 19, 2010 April 7, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20100220175709/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586781,00.html February 20, 2010 live mdy-all . Notes 13 injured and Vernon Hunter killed. https://www.foxnews.com/story/glass-worker-turns-hero-after-plane-crashes-into-texas-building Glass Worker Turns Hero After Plane Crashes Into Texas Building FoxNews.com Diane Macedo February 18, 2010 February 19, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100220175658/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586682,00.html February 20, 2010 live mdy-all http://www.traviscad.org/travisdetail.php?theKey=362591 TaxNetUSA: Travis County Property Information TravisCAD.org Travis Central Appraisal District February 16, 2010 February 18, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100221121744/http://www.traviscad.org/travisdetail.php?theKey=362591 February 21, 2010 dead mdy-all http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/19/victim-in-austin-plane-crash-identified/ Victim in Austin Plane Crash Identified LiveShots via FoxNews.com Maggie Kerkman February 19, 2010 February 19, 2010 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King Justifies Suicide Attack On IRS: Sympathizes With Hatred Of IRS, Hopes For Its Destruction Think Progress Lee Fang February 22, 2010 February 24, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100224103810/http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/22/king-justifies-irs-terrorism/ February 24, 2010 live mdy-all http://iowaindependent.com/28640/king-on-suicide-pilot-i-understand-the-deep-frustration-with-the-i-r-s King on suicide pilot: 'I understand the deep frustration with the I.R.S.' The Iowa Independent Jason Hancock February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100310015727/http://iowaindependent.com/28640/king-on-suicide-pilot-i-understand-the-deep-frustration-with-the-i-r-s March 10, 2010 dead mdy-all http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-plane-crash-stacks-journey,0,7094353.story?page=1 Simmering for decades, a Texas engineer's grudge against the IRS explodes into suicidal flight Breed Allen G. 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