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The plane embedded in the side of the building. At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 78th and 80th floors, making an 18-by-20-foot (5.5 m × 6.1 m) hole in the building [9] into the offices of the War Relief Services and the National Catholic Welfare Council.
American Airlines Flight 6001 was a transcontinental flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Hollywood Burbank Airport.On the morning of January 10, 1945, during a missed approach to Hollywood Burbank Airport, the American Airlines Douglas DC-3-277B operating the flight crashed into the nearby Verdugo Hills.
In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
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 ...
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).
At 9:40 on 28 July 1945, a USAAF B-25D crashed in thick fog into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors. Fourteen people died — 11 in the building and the three occupants of the aircraft, including the pilot, Colonel William F. Smith. [49]
July 28 – B-25 Empire State Building crash. The Empire State Building in New York City is set on fire by a B-25 Mitchell bomber that crashed into the building, killing 14. December 24 – Niles Street Convalescent Hospital fire in Hartford, Connecticut , killed 21.
1944 Fashion Institute of Technology established. May 2: WABD Channel 4 (now WNYW Channel 5) became the 3rd television station in the city to signed on the air for the first time. Luna Park closes, after a fire. 1945 July 28: A B-25 Mitchell bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 13 people.