Empire State Crash

Season 10 Episode 2

Eduardo links a chunk of molten metal to the B-25 Bomber that crashed into the Empire Stat

On a foggy Saturday in 1945, a B-25 Bomber flew into the Empire State Building. Irv Atkins says his father Louis came home from work the following Monday with a piece of twisted metal he found sitting in his office amid his broken windows. The Atkins family has always believed this was a piece of the plane. Eduardo Pagán investigates to give this piece of metal its proper place in history.

AIR DATE 7/23/12

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