Around the world, there are dozens of places planes don't fly over . Usually, the reason is obvious: security (the White House), active war zones (Ukraine), and Mother Nature (volcanoes). One of the locations you would least like to find yourself when in an airplane, however, is Manhattan. Home to some of the earliest skyscrapers, the island has been a forest of tall buildings for as long as planes have been in existence. This means low-flying aircraft would not only be in serious danger themselves, but risk terrifying the citizens of New York City, even decades before September 11, 2001.

On July 28, 1945, disaster struck, quite literally, when a B-25 bomber slammed into the side of the Empire State Building. Witnesses were horrified: after all, World War II was not yet over. While Germ

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