11/18/2023 0 Comments 1940 new york skyscraper![]() Only 11 people in the building were killed, some suffering burns from the fiery fuel and others after being thrown out of the building. Since it was a Saturday, fewer workers than normal were in the building. Quick-thinking rescuers pulled the woman from the elevator, saving her life. The emergency auto brake saved the woman from crashing to the bottom, but the engine fell down the shaft and landed on top of it. The other engine snapped an elevator cable while at least one woman was riding in the elevator car. Other plane parts ended up embedded in and on top of nearby buildings. One engine from the plane went straight through the building and landed in a penthouse apartment across the street. ![]() Upon impact, the plane’s fuel exploded, filling the interior of the building with flames all the way down to the 75th floor and sending flames out of the hole the plane had ripped open in the building’s side. It swerved to avoid the building but the move sent it straight into the north side of the Empire State Building, near the 79th floor. ![]() The bomber was flying relatively slowly and quite low, seeking better visibility, when it came upon the Chrysler Building in midtown. This new flight plan took the plane over Manhattan the crew was specifically warned that the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the city at the time, was not visible. Air-traffic controllers instructed the plane to fly to Newark Airport instead. As it came into the metropolitan area on that Saturday morning, the fog was particularly thick. The B-25 Mitchell bomber, with two pilots and one passenger aboard, was flying from Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog. A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, killing 14 people.
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