and the plane smashed into the north side, the Atkins family has always believed this was a piece of the B-25 bomber that flew into the Empire State Building. Irv Atkins asks History Detectives ...

Karen had never heard of a plane crashing into a building ... to find that there actually was an airplane that hit into the Empire State building on July 28, 1945 - how was an eight-year-old ...

The aircraft hit a vacant, state ... [the] building was abandoned... so nobody was inside at the time." Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi: "I am deeply saddened by the tragic plane crash on Oahu ...