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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.
Wreckage from the 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash. At 9:40 am on July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., [391] crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors (then the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council).
The structural engineers working on the World Trade Center considered the possibility that aircraft could crash into the building. In July 1945, a B-25 bomber that was lost in fog had crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. [25] A year later, a C-45F Expeditor crashed into the 40 Wall Street building.
On July 28, 1945, residents of New York City were horrified when an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building, leaving 14 dead. Though the events of that day have largely faded from public ...
The Empire State Building Run-Up is an annual race up the stairs to the 86th floor (1,576 steps). The building has 24/7 security. It is monitored with security technology, such as CCTV cameras ...
Later, in New York City, a disastrous attempt to relocate the Empire State Building causes the skyscraper to collapse, trapping a news reporter and his cameraman in an underground river. With Thunderbird 2 out of action, International Rescue must find another way to transport submersible Thunderbird 4 to the disaster area to save the two men.
An asteroid between 820 and 1,870 feet in diameter will cruise past us on Saturday, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The original One World Trade Center (also known as the North Tower, Tower 1, Building One, or 1 WTC) was one of the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center complex in New York City. It was completed in 1972, stood at a height of 1,368 feet (417 m), and was the tallest building in the world until 1973, when surpassed by the Sears Tower in ...