September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscraper. Actually, such tragedies are more common than is thought.
On July 28, 1945, for instance, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber traveling at 200 miles (c. 370 kilometers) per hour in heavy fog crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City. Luckily it was a Saturday, though dozens were injured and 14 killed. People thought the city was being bombed:
Doris Pope, Boynton Beach, Fla. told The Palm Beach Post in 1999:
“We heard this terrible noise, and the building started to shake. As we looked out our third-floor window, we saw debris fall on to the street. We immediately thought New York was being bombed.”
Another eyewitness, Helen J. Hurwitt, from Greenacres, Fla., told the Post:
“I heard a horrendous noise. My husband and I were in a building directly opposite the Empire State Building. Large plate-glass windows looked out onto 34th Street. The floor we were on was pretty high. At some point, we heard a horrendous noise and rushed to the windows. We were horrified to see a B-25 half in and half out of the Empire State...
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