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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.
The 1945 Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash was a military flight transporting mainly children that crashed on March 5, 1945. Shortly after takeoff from a German Air Force base in Kępa , the Dornier Do 24T-3 carrying four crew and 77 passengers crashed into Resko Przymorskie (formerly Lake Kamper), killing all but one on board.
American Airlines Flight 009 was a flight from New York City to Los Angeles. On the morning of February 23, 1945, while flying over Rural Retreat, Virginia, on the Washington-Nashville leg, the Douglas DC-3 struck the wooded summit of Glade Mountain in the Appalachian Mountains, killing 17 of the 22 occupants on board.
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 ...
Engine failure was considered. The No. 2 engine had been changed during maintenance on 15 November 1944 and had 517 flying hours, the other three engines had each accumulated 466 flying hours and had been serviced on 16 November 1944. The aircraft carried its own flight engineer. Its previous civilian flight engineer, John Affleck, testified at ...
American Airlines Flight 6001 took off from New York-LaGuardia at 7:23 p.m. EST on January 9, 1945. A crew change occurred in El Paso at 1:46 a.m. CST on the morning of January 10. After departing Phoenix, the flight was cleared to Newhall, California due to unfavorable weather conditions at Burbank. At 3 a.m. PST, the weather report showed a ...
There is one date that most people associate with a plane crashing into the tallest building in New York City, but 56 years before Sept. 11, 2001, an aircraft navigating through challenging ...
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.