[Additional reporting indicates that crash was, in fact, deliberate.]

“A small, single-engine private plane has crashed into a seven-storey office building in Austin, Texas.

Smoke could be seen billowing from the building, which houses offices of the federal tax agency.

Most employees have been evacuated but one person is unaccounted for, a spokesman for the Austin fire department said.

The building is next door to FBI field offices, but the bureau said there was no indication the crash was deliberate. “

“Government has put all Air India planes operating in the country’s neighbourhood on high security alert and directed the airlines to deploy sky marshals following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based LET and other terror groups were planning to hijack a flight.

A directive has been issued to all Indian missions abroad to sensitise the staff of the airlines, official sources said.

“Acting on intelligence failures exposed by the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a major tightening of British aviation security measures on Wednesday, including the creation of a new ‘no-fly’ list of terrorist suspects similar to one maintained by the United States.”

“A passenger fled from security officers after his laptop computer bag tested positive for explosives at an airport in Munich, the country’s federal police told CNN on Wednesday.

Police said they are searching for the passenger, who fled from the secure area of the airport into the public area of Terminal 2, police said. Part of the airport was shut down after the suspect fled, but was later reopened.”

(Source: Man flees in Munich airport laptop explosives alert – CNN.com.)

“Abdulmutallab has given a defiant warning to US investigators, telling them: ‘There are more just like me who will strike soon.’

Dozens of Islamic militants from Britain are thought to have travelled to Yemen in recent months, where the security services fear they are being trained by al-Qaeda bomb-makers to launch further attacks against Western targets. ”

Detroit terror attack: ‘There are many more like me,’ bomber warns – Telegraph: