Plane Crashes Into Office Building In Austin Texas

Early reports of the Thursday morning crash had that a small plane had crashed into a local FBI building; but now it's being reported by News Channel 8 in Austin that official have said the building where the crash too place is adjacent to the building housing the FBI.

Austin Plane Crash
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The crash took place at 9400 block of Research Boulevard.

KGNB News reports that "Austin-Travis County EMS Assistant Director James Shamard said smoke is visible for at least a mile and that paramedics have set up a triage center at the scene."

Will update as details come in.

Local Fox 7 in Austin says the crash took place between 9:30 and 9:45 central time.

It was a small single engine airplane.

Hit a 7 story building in North Austin, near the air port, off of I-183


11:08 central Press Conference:

Fire Department representative Terry Evans

Two individuals transported to the hospital, 1 person unaccounted for.

They shut down the power grid

“Fire continues to burn…but we’re offensive and inside the structure.”

No deaths reported at this point.
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There are some federal offices in that building that was hit"

"It appears the plane struck about the second floor...that's very preliminary"

James Holly, Division Chief with Ems

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