The plane crash killed 14 people (11 office workers and the three crewmen) plus injured 26 others.

As a young 20 year old bride, Betty Lou Oliver was the elevator operator of elevator #6 in the Empire State Building when Lt. Col. Willian F. Smith's B-25 hit the north side of the building between the 79th and 80th floor on July 28th, 1945. Not realizing her peril at first, she leaned from the window and started to wave to the crew members, she said.The army said the bomber left Bedford, Mass., on "contact flying regulations." Part of it landed on the roof of the 12-story Waldorf building on 33rd street.Six dead were reported soldiers, some presumably members of the plane's crew of five.Only the fact that it was Saturday morning, when many offices are closed, prevented a far greater disaster.The 78th floor was unoccupied. Nine bodies were reported found on the 79th floor. His whole body was on fire. Warriors' Draymond Green fined $50K for saying Devin Booker should leave Suns It broke into a giant, spectacular burst of flame. The plane’s wings were sheared off, parts of them clinging to the gaping hole in the side of the building. Army public relations officers said the plane was en route from New Bedford, Mass., to LaGuardia Field. So he did. Lt. Aubrey B. Condit, army frier and chief engineering assistant at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., who happened to be gazing at the Empire State and saw the plane said: "The pilot had just about one mine to see how he was going to die. Deering's body was recovered from a window ledge on the 72nd floor, and police believed he died trying to escape from an upper floor.Roofs of several nearby buildings were set afire by the spray of blazing gasoline from the plane.Stanley Lomax, sports announcer for radio station WOR, driving past the scene at the time of the blast, said: "I heard the plane's engines. Photo… Much of the rest of the building was taking the day off.However, there was one organization on the 79th floor hard at work that Saturday: The National Catholic Welfare Council.
NEW YORK (UP) -- A B-25 bomber crashed and exploded in the 78th floor of the Empire State building Saturday and the upper part of the tallest building in the world instantly became a blazing inferno for hundreds of office workers perched 1,000 feet above the street.The plane was lost in a fog when it struck. But first, he had been sent from Bedford Field near Boston in a B-25 Mitchell bomber to confer with his commanding officer in Newark, New Jersey.Smith found the New York metro area covered with heavy fog, so he flew toward LaGuardia Airport in Queens and requested a landing clearance. “One man was standing inside the flame.

"Lomax said the plane struck at a point where there is a recess in the building, just below the observation tower. A minister gives last rites at the site of the crash of the bomber into the Empire State Building, 1945. 1945 plane crash at Empire State Building. Jack Loer, St. Vincent's hospital, first physician to reach the burning floors, said he traveled by elevator to the 70th floor and walked up to the 78th, 79th, and 80th floor.Puerto Rico suspends primary voting due to ballot shortage Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Puerto Rico has temporarily suspended voting for its primary elections due to a shortage of available ballots, voting officials said.Two people dead from bubonic plague in China, authorities say Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Two people died of the bubonic plague in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China in August.Beirut death toll climbs past 200; justice chief resigns Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The death toll from the explosions last week in Beirut has risen beyond 200 and Lebanon's justice minister has become the latest government official to resign amid widespread clashes that have grown out of the disaster.Mixed bag projected for Atlantic fish stocks as temperatures rise Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Warming ocean temperatures will prove a boon to some commercial fish stocks in the Atlantic, while depressing others, according to a new study published Monday in the Journal of Applied Ecology.Schools in several states begin in-person, remote classes Monday Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Schools in some parts of the United States were set to reopen their doors for in-person instruction on Monday, amid concerns for new COVID-19 outbreaks.New U.S. cases under 50,000 for the first time in a week Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The United States saw a decline in new COVID-19 cases on Sunday -- under 50,000 -- according to updated figures Monday from researchers at Johns Hopkins University.Poll: Most in U.S. don't think women have achieved equality Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Women still have a ways to go to achieve equality with men in the workplace and in politics, a new Gallup survey said Monday.Australia records deadliest day as worldwide cases near 20M Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A domestic travel ban for Australia will likely continue until Christmas, Prime Minister Scott Morrison as the island nation recorded its highest single-day death toll of 19.Police, protesters clash in Belarus as Lukashenko wins 6th term Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Protesters and riot police clashed in Belarus as demonstrators took to the streets in opposition to early exit polls that indicate incumbent President Aleksandr Lukashenko would handily win a sixth term.High levels of mercury, plastic toxins found in stranded whales, dolphins ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Dolphins and whales stranded on beaches in the southeastern United States had very high levels of mercury and toxins found in plastic, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. Glass and debris continued to shower down for almost an hour.

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