The Empire State Building and its occupants suffered a serious trauma one Saturday morning in 1945. The Empire State Building was , quite suddently and without warning , struck by an airplane.
That morning , an experienced army pilot named Bill Smith took off from Bedford, Massachusetts in a B-25 bomber with two passengers on board. He was headed for Newark , New Jersey in very foggy conditions. About an hour into the flight , the plane was in the middle of new York City rather than at its intended destination . The pilot was able to maneuver the plane around several skyscrapers before it crashed into the 79th floor of one of the tall buildings , the 102-floor Empire State Building.
When the plane hit the building , there was a huge amount of destruction . there was a big hole in the outside of the building , and parts of the plane crashed through interior walls on the 78th and 79th floors . Then, when the fuel tank exploded , six floors of the building went up in flames.
There was also a human toll. Fourteen lives were lost in the crash; the number would have been far greater , however , if the accident had occurred on a weekday rather than on a Saturday. During working hours, there might have been 25 000 people in the building.
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