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AUSTIN, Texas - A small plane crashed Thursday into an office building in Austin, causing a fire and sending black smoke billowing from the seven-story structure, officials said.

Fire department officials said an unknown number of people were being taken to hospitals. Dawn Clopton, a division chief with the Austin Fire Department, said two people from the building were unaccounted for.

The plane hit the Echelon Building, which is located on a major highway north Austin. Several fires were burning from the second to the fourth floors, KXAN reported.

Austin-Travis County EMS Assistant Director James Shamard said smoke was visible for at least a mile and that paramedics have set up a triage center at the scene. "We have no idea right now if there are any patients, or how many," he told the Austin American-Statesman.

Emergency officials told the newspaper the building has seven stories.

Tucker Thurman was driving to work when he said he saw a small plane flying very low over the highway. He said he saw it then bank heavily to the right before heading into the building.

"There was a huge fireball. It's right into the building," Thurman told the Statesman.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35460268/ns/us_news-life/

Accident or intentional? Seems like too small a target to be a terror plot.

[Inconceivable]

Small plane crashes are not that uncommon...will be shocked if it wasn't an accident. (pilot error most likely and not malfunction)

[Hugh Jass]

I'm gonna go with accident on this one.

[glassjaws]

I think I stayed at a hotel not too far from there like a month ago.

[Elston Gunn]

I'm a little freaked out right now. Up 30 or so floors in a building in Philly and this little Cessna has been circling around just outside my building for the past 15 minutes. Odd. Anyone else in Philly seeing it?

[Inconceivable]

Originally Posted by Elston Gunn

I'm a little freaked out right now. Up 30 or so floors in a building in Philly and this little Cessna has been circling around just outside my building for the past 15 minutes. Odd. Anyone else in Philly seeing it?

Why would the terrorist just be circling arround? But on the safe side...might want to take a break.

[Hugh Jass]

Originally Posted by Elston Gunn

I'm a little freaked out right now. Up 30 or so floors in a building in Philly and this little Cessna has been circling around just outside my building for the past 15 minutes. Odd. Anyone else in Philly seeing it?

If you had a rocket launcher you could just shoot it down

[glassjaws]

Training mission.

Or

They're waiting for you to give them some Grey Poupon.

[Elston Gunn]

Just flew off to the west. BTW, freaked me out because you NEVER see planes flying over the downtown area in Philly. EVER. Let alone circling around for 15 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Hugh Jass

If you had a rocket launcher you could just shoot it down

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