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Betty had a shit fucking day.

Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was thrown from her elevator car on the 80th floor and suffered severe burns. First aid workers placed her on another elevator car to transport her to the ground floor, but the cables supporting that elevator had been damaged in the incident, and it fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement.[13] Oliver survived the fall due to the softening cushion of air created by the falling elevator car within this elevator shaft; however, she had suffered a broken pelvis, back and neck when rescuers found her amongst the rubble.[14] This remains the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.

On the morning of 9/11, after the first plane had hit the first tower, my dad, a news junkie, called me to tell me a plane hit the WTC, but I was busy with work and I told him I couldn't talk but I hoped it wasn't too bad. I assumed it was some sort of accident like this (which I already knew about).

Then he called a little while later to tell me that a second plane had hit the other tower...

I'm curious how they went about repairing this. Do they cut out sections and weld it together or what?

Crashed due to low visibility in fog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Empire_State_Building_B-25_crash

Man that is some insane photos and damage.

Both because it's impressive and minor all at once. The fire damage looks far more severe and like it hit multiple floors and yet the exterior stone is barely wedged out of place.

You can even still see the debris of the plane.

Should have used jet fuel!!! I hear it can melt steel beans

Holy shit all the people just standing there at the hole in the side of the building…

I read it as B52 at first and wondered how the building survives

This confirms Things were more solid in the past?

Don’t build em like they used to.