TIL In 1945, a B-25 bomber pilot crashed into the Empire State Building's elevator shaft, snapping the cable. By the time the carriage reached the bottom, a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it acting like a spring, which allowed the lone occupant in the car to escape injured but alive.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down?currentPage=all



Submitted February 13, 2015 at 08:17PM by moumouren http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vrou0/til_in_1945_a_b25_bomber_pilot_crashed_into_the/