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Betty had a shit fucking day.
Especially bad when you consider the elevator shouldn't have fallen in the first place.
Elisha Otis invented his automatic elevator brakes in 1853 -- designed to instantly stop cars from falling if the cables snap ... and the Empire State Building used Otis safety elevators.
Given how dead simple and reliable the safety mechanism is something must have gone horrible wrong.
A bit more on Betty and the incident:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/how-an-elevator-attendant-survived-a-1-000-ft-fall-down-the-empire-state-building-759670
Tldr; she lived till 74 and had a family and children, so it looks like it all worked out after nearly dying two or three times from the crash/burn/elevator crash.
That's like one of my worst fears
Being thrown from an elevator or elevator falling 75 stories or airplane hitting the building?
Yes
Record setting go-getter
Holy fuck