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GlobeSt.com EXCLUSIVE: Tampa Suicide Air Crash Damages Expected to Top $2 Mil

TAMPA, FL-The FBI, Federal Aviation Administration and Florida Department of Law Enforcement are assessing the destruction from the Jan. 5 solo assault on two floors of the 42-story, 766,136-sf Bank of America Plaza in Downtown Tampa, 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on January 07, 2002

TAMPA, FL-The 42-story, 766,1360 sf Bank of America Plaza, Downtown Tampa’s premier office tower, suffered at least $2 million structural and interior damage when an apparently deranged 15-year-old high school student crashed a stolen Cessna training plane into the 15-year-old structure, insurance industry estimators not associated with the investigation tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.

The incident occurred Saturday at about 5:15 p.m. when only 50 persons were in the building, Tampa is 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

Had the crash occurred during a regular work week, 2,500 employees who work in the building at 101 E. Kennedy Blvd. would have been at risk. Bank of America Plaza has 95 tenants and 93% occupied, Michael J. Hoffman, senior leasing manager, Insignia/ESG Inc., tells GlobeSt.com.

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