Smoke billows from the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, after an Army B-25 bomber, flying through fog en route to Newark Airport, crashed into the upper floors of the structure. Fourteen people died.
Betty Lou Oliver, an elevator operator on the 80th floor, was injured by the crash. After being treated with first aid, she was placed in an elevator to take her to a waiting ambulance. However, the elevator car's safety cable had been severed, and the car plunged 75 floors. Incredibly, Oliver survived, and holds the Guinness World Record for the Longest Fall Survived in an Elevator.