White House: Awaiting investigation before any call on whether plane crash was terrorism

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White House: Awaiting inquiry on Texas plane crash

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House says it will await the results of an investigation before deciding whether to call a plane that crashed into a Texas office building an act of terrorism.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that President Barack Obama is getting updates from local and federal officials. Officials said a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service flew his small plane into an Austin building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees. Obama was briefed on the incident at the White House before departing for political events in Colorado and Nevada.

Gibbs had said earlier that the incident did not appear to be terrorism. When asked specifically if domestic terrorism was a possibility, Gibbs said he does not suspect “somebody like an al-Qaida.”