{"id":16731,"date":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/final-words-irs-crashing-suicide-pilot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:53:49","slug":"final-words-irs-crashing-suicide-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/final-words-irs-crashing-suicide-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Words of IRS Crashing Suicide Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true.<\/p>\n

Andrew Joseph Stack III<\/a>, the infamous pilot who flew his single engine Piper PA-28-236 into the side of a building that housed the IRS office in northwest Austin, Texas, uttered the words, \u201cHave a great day\u201d just before his crash.\u00a0 This was according to the National Transportation Safety Board\u2019s preliminary report on the incident.<\/p>\n

Leaving behind a rather detailed suicide note on the Internet, Stack displayed great antagonism towards the IRS for the way he was allegedly treated.\u00a0 His seething anger and fury drove him to take it out on the IRS in the most horrendous way, copycatting the terrorist acts of 9\/11.\u00a0 The NTSB\u2019s investigations reveal the exact train of events on that fateful morning.<\/p>\n

Air Traffic control records and radar data show that Stack received clearance for takeoff and flew his airplane from Georgetown Municipal Airport at 9.44 a.m. on February 18.\u00a0 He did not file a flight plan as none was required under the circumstances.\u00a0 After taking off, Stack then headed south, climbing to an altitude of 4,800 feet.\u00a0 At that time, an air traffic controller approved a change in his radio frequency, to which Stack responded, \u201cEight niner-delta, thanks for your help.\u00a0 Have a great day.\u201d\u00a0 After this, no further verbal communication was made with the pilot.<\/p>\n

Ten minutes after taking off, the airplane was detected on radar heading west as it descended from 4,800 feet.\u00a0 Within 3 minutes, at 9.57 a.m. the plane was flying at 1,000 feet, heading south west.\u00a0 It had lost almost 4,000 feet in altitude in 3 minutes.<\/p>\n

At 9.58 a.m., tragedy struck when Stack intentionally flew his aircraft into the side of a building in the Echelon office complex along US Highway 183 that contained the IRS.\u00a0 The plane slammed into the building between the first and second floors causing a thunderous crash as it exploded upon impact.\u00a0 Stack and an IRS worker, Vietnam War veteran Vernon Hunter perished in the incident.<\/p>\n

The horrific crash left the plane\u2019s engine, two of its propeller blades and its right wing outside the building.\u00a0 The rear end of the plane came to rest on a ledge of the building as it partially hung over the edge.\u00a0 The left wing, part of the fuselage and its remaining propeller blade were found inside the devastated second floor of the building.<\/p>\n

If you are having tax problems, no need to do anything drastic.\u00a0 Call us at (813) 229 7100.\u00a0 We will help you solve your IRS problems for good.<\/p>\n

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Most of what you've read online about IRS problems is wrong, or at least misleading. I'm Darrin Mish. I practice tax law in Tampa and I've been doing this for 32 years. Here's what's actually true. Andrew Joseph Stack III, the infamous pilot who flew his single engine Piper PA-28-236 into the side of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27261,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16731\/revisions\/27261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}