Which way to the ground ?

A Russian news report says a small plane has crashed when the pilot lost his bearings and decided to ask a tractor driver for directions. No one was hurt. RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a local police spokesman as saying the accident happened Friday in southern Russia's Stavropol region.
It said the pilot lost his way, saw a tractor below and decided to land to get advice from the driver.
Oleg Ugnivenko, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, said the An-2 agricultural plane grazed the tractor while landing in the field and broke its landing gear. He said no one was hurt but gave no further details.

Record Insurance

An insurance company is facing a record payout for a car crash after a motorist caused £300,000 damage to a Pagani Zonda S super-car during a test drive. The driver was borrowing the £528,000 sports car from its owner when he spun out of control on a narrow country lane near Aberdeen.

The Italian-made vehicle, which can reach speeds of 220mph, hit a telegraph pole before smashing through a fence. The motorist, whose identity has not been revealed, escaped the mangled wreckage unhurt.

Insurance firm Aviva says the £300,000 payout is the largest in the UK.

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Tax office version of 9/11

A TEXAS man, Joseph Andrew Stack, set his house on fire, then stole a small plane and crashed it into a building containing a federal tax office on Thursday, CNN reported citing federal officials. "This was apparently -- according to an official -- a deliberate act," CNN anchor Tony Harris said.

The inset shows the building after the small plane crashed into it. The plane struck the second floor of the seven-story building in Austin, Texas about 10 am and burst into flames in a massive explosion that forced people to flee out of the windows, witnesses and officials said. There was "no known link to terrorism" the Department of Homeland Security said, noting that the cause of the crash was not yet known.

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) launched two F-16 fighter aircraft from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas to conduct an air patrol in response to the crash.
Two people were taken to hospital and one person was unaccounted for, but fire officials said they believed everyone else had been evacuated.

Fate of the pilot was not immediately clear. Now it is known that he has left the world and left the people still on it an angry anti-tax agency web page.