
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Eighty years ago, on July 28, 1945, an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.
Fourteen people were killed. Debris from the plane severed the cables of an elevator, which fell 79 stories with a young woman inside. She survived. The crash prompted new legislation that—for the first time—gave citizens the right to sue the federal government.
By Radio Diaries & Radiotopia4.6
12291,229 ratings
Eighty years ago, on July 28, 1945, an Army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. A dictation machine in a nearby office happened to capture the sound of the plane as it hit the Empire State Building at the 79th floor.
Fourteen people were killed. Debris from the plane severed the cables of an elevator, which fell 79 stories with a young woman inside. She survived. The crash prompted new legislation that—for the first time—gave citizens the right to sue the federal government.

90,966 Listeners

44,003 Listeners

37,592 Listeners

27,151 Listeners

26,240 Listeners

11,662 Listeners

2,883 Listeners

8,477 Listeners

6,888 Listeners

1,288 Listeners

10,438 Listeners

3,938 Listeners

17,590 Listeners

2,237 Listeners

20,451 Listeners

9,390 Listeners

5,213 Listeners

3,601 Listeners

1,116 Listeners

4,845 Listeners

5,869 Listeners

145 Listeners

271 Listeners

443 Listeners

115 Listeners

564 Listeners

72 Listeners

13 Listeners

36 Listeners

0 Listeners

0 Listeners

47 Listeners

101 Listeners

0 Listeners