This crash at 40 Wall Street was the second of its kind in New York City 's history , the first being when an Army B-25 bomber struck the 78th floor of the Empire State Building in July 1945 . The cause of that crash was also fog and poor visibility . The 1946 accident was the last time an airplane accidentally struck a skyscraper in New York City until October 11 , 2006 , when a small plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into a 50-story condo building on Manhattan 's Upper East Side
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