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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
B-25. 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.
One eyewitness reported that one of the plane's two engines caught fire prior to impact. [1] Part of the fuselage was found 500 yards from the crash, and numerous small brush fires sprang up because of burning fuel that the impact scattered over a wide area. Investigators attributed the crash to engine failure caused by stormy weather.
The aircraft was tested for almost two years, beginning in 1942; while the system proved extremely effective, no production models were built that used it before the end of World War II. Many surviving warbird-flown B-25 aircraft today use the de-icing system from the XB-25E (number made: 1, converted). ZXB-25E XB-25F-A
Pilot handling and cabin crew responses can also improve the chances of surviving a plane crash. Azerbaijan Airlines president Samir Rzayev spoke about the pilots' "heroism" to reporters on Wednesday.
Map of the incident made by the NTSB, showing the B-25's actual path and the path Smits thought it was on. Karns flew up to 20,000 feet (6,100 m) in a circular pattern over the course of about an hour. Unable to see the ground, he communicated with the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center to know his plane's position. [20]
A Huntington Beach, California, man and his teen daughter are the apparent victims in the crash of a home-built airplane that happened on Thursday in Fullerton, California.
The firefighter, a 25-year-old woman, “sustained a serious head injury around 8:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to a post on X from Erik Scott, public information officer for ...