What Would Happen If Your Elevator Cable Broke?

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In 1945, the pilot of a U.S. Air Force B-25 became lost in the fog and flew into the seventy-ninth floor of the Empire State Building, severing the hoist and safety cables of two elevators and sending both plummeting down the shafts.

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