I can't believe nearly one year has passed since the biggest story I've ever covered.  It was Feb. 19, 2010 when a man named Joseph Stack crashed his small plane into the Echelon Building in Austin, Tex.  We later learned it was a suicide mission into a building with IRS workers inside.  I have since moved on to Denver, Colo., and I know my profession will require me to cover more big stories, but this one, I will never forget.

Here's my blog post from one year ago.

"Thursday, KXAN assigned me to a Texas Department of Public Safety Commission meeting to cover the latest security updates to the Texas State Capitol building.  But phone calls started flooding the newsroom just after 10:00 a.m. that a plane crashed into the "Echelon Building" in North Austin.  It had the stereotypical response of a reporter jumping at the chance to cover the story.  I scrambled into a live truck to meet my photographer Mark Batchelder at the scene.  He left about 30 minutes earlier to cover what we know now as Joe Stack's house fire in North Austin."

You can read the rest of the day's events with the link below.  Unfortunately the Youtube videos have been pulled, but you can see my description of the day I will never forget.

http://mattflener.posterous.com/a-reporters-perspective-on-the-austin-irs-pla