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The Empire State Building B-25 crash was a 1945 aircraft accident in which a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog over New York City, crashed into the Empire State Building. The accident did not compromise the building's structural integrity, but it did cause fourteen deaths (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at $1,000,000 ($13,593,346 in 2017 dollars).[1]
At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 78th and 80th floors, carving an 18-by-20-foot (5.5 m × 6.1 m) hole in the building[7] where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located. One engine shot through the South side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block, dropping 900 feet (270 m) and landing on the roof of a nearby building and starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse art studio. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. It is still the only significant fire at such a height to be brought under control.[7]
There are significant differences between the Empire State Building event and 9/11. First, the ESB was built with typical placement of the columns in a grid pattern, usually spaced 20 - 25 ft apart. The exterior is closed with ' curtain walls' which add no structural strength to the building, often being only glass. Therefore there was little obstruction to the plane, allowing it to penetrate more easily. Secondly, a B-25 is only about 65 feet wide and 50' long, a smaller plane also made less contact with the structural elements of the building. But the WTC was built with structural columns placed around the perimeter, one meter on center, with barely 24" clear between, also the exterior columns were tied together with horizontal structural steel plates. Only 37% of the exterior face was not structural steel. The airliners on 911 were more than 100 feet wider and supposedly cut forty 14" steel box columns all without slowing down, bending, breaking or crumpling, without any debris falling to the ground? Just the exterior frame in just the 'affected area' had more mass than the entire plane.
Sorry, just a big lie