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The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States,〔 killing himself and Internal Revenue Service manager Vernon Hunter.〔 Thirteen others were injured, two seriously. 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 referring to "greed", "insanity", and the IRS, dated February 18, 2010, to his business website. 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 more than $38.6 million,〔 with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and over $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. However, the spending on security changes was questioned as being ineffective (see below). The building was repaired by December 2011. ==Joseph Stack== The plane was piloted by Andrew Joseph Stack III of the Scofield Farms neighborhood in North Austin, who worked as an embedded software consultant.〔〔〔 He grew up in Pennsylvania and had two brothers and two sisters, was orphaned at age four, and spent some time at a Catholic orphanage.〔 He graduated from the Milton Hershey School in 1974 and studied engineering at Harrisburg Area Community College from 1975 to 1977 but did not graduate.〔〔 His first marriage to Ginger Stack, which ended in divorce, produced a daughter, Samantha Bell.〔〔 In 2007, Stack had remarried with 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 IRS liabilities totaling nearly $126,000. In 1995, Stack started Software Systems Service Corp, which was suspended in 2004 for non-payment of state taxes.〔 On CNN and ABC news broadcasts another software consultant said that the IRS had taken away a tax status for software consultants, which might have set off the incident with Stack.〔(Austin Texas Suicide Pilot What Set Him Off ) "Austin Texas Suicide Pilot What Set Him Off" Rick Sanchez, CNN, February 18, 2010〕〔(Airplane mechanic talks about Texas pilot ) "ABC KGO News Airplane Mechanic talks about Texas Pilot", KGO ABC Local News San Francisco, California, February 18, 2010〕 Stack obtained a pilot's license in 1994 and owned a Velocity Elite XL-RG plane, in addition to the Piper 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 IRS for failure to report income. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 Austin suicide attack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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