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True or false?
911 was not the only event in New York City where a plane crashed into a tall building.
True or false?
911 was not the only event in New York City where a plane crashed into a tall building.
A bomber aircraft crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945.
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True or false?
911 was not the only event in New York City where a plane crashed into a tall building.
Answer :
1945 plane crash
At 9:40 a.m.on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors, where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located. One engine shot through the side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block where it landed on the roof of a nearby building, starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. 14 people were killed in the incident.
Despite the damage and loss of life, the building was open for business on many floors on the following Monday. The crash helped spur the passage of the long-pending Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, as well as the insertion of retroactive provisions into the law, allowing people to sue the government for the accident.
A year later, another aircraft had a close encounter with the skyscraper. It narrowly missed striking the building.
True, if I recall it had to do with the bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building
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