The View From The 79th Floor
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The Fall of the Empire State Building
A B-25 Mitchell bomber on a flight crashed into the 78th or 79th story of the Empire State Building. "It just threw me across the room and I landed against the wall," says former Columbia Station employee who was in office when plane hit building. Most of us managed to get into this one office that seemed to be untouched by the fire and closed the door before it engulfed us. What the final toll will be, there is no way of telling it this time.
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