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14 Apr 2008 07:49 pm
Worst Elevator Ride Ever
From the New Yorker:
Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an
episode of an elevator in free fall—the cab plummeting in the shaftway,
frayed rope ends trailing in the dark—and he will say that he can think
of only one. That would be the Empire State Building incident of 1945,
in which a B-25 bomber pilot made a wrong turn in the fog and crashed
into the seventy-ninth floor, snapping the hoist and safety cables of
two elevators. Both of them plunged to the bottom of the shaft. One of
them fell from the seventy-fifth floor with a woman aboard—an elevator
operator. (The operator of the other one had stepped out for a
cigarette.)
Saved by nicotine-craving. The poor woman survived, mercifully.
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