Yesterday's Big Story - A Mitchell bomber had crashed into the side of the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.
Yesterday's Big Story - A Mitchell bomber had crashed into the side of the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.
July 28, 1945. New York City was shrouded in a smothering blanket of fog when scores of people heard a low-flying plane heading south. Then, an explosion! A Mitchell bomber had crashed into the side of the Empire State Building at the 79th floor. The crew of three and ten other people died as the plane hit with such force that parts of it passed through the building and across the street. From street looking up at building on fire, and from building looking down at street. New York, NY New York City shrouded in a blanket of fog, you can hardly make out the shapes of the buildings. MS - Downtown New York a lot of people and traffic on the street. Camera pans - Empire State Building engulfed in fog. MS - Military men running down the street, fire hoses, traffic blocked off. Camera looks up at the building - There you see smoke coming from one of the top floors. MS - Inside one of the units that the plane went through, smoking from the fire, and a fire hose spewing out water to put out any hidden fires. MS - Firemen inside one of the units with their fire hoses. MS - A man laying on a ledge presumably dead, he was blown out of the building. MS - The fog has cleared up some and you see rescue squads, firemen and policemen as well as pedestrians. CUS - Man who looks unconscious being carried away on a stretcher. MS - Inside of an office burned to a crisp, This made it very hard to identify the remains of the people who were in that office. MS - All kinds of charred stuff, unrecognizable on top of the desk. MS - Fire and medical examiners inside the charred offices and then the camera pans down looking at the street below.