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An Empire State Building elevator plunged 40 stories when a cable snapped, but two people inside were saved by an emergency braking system.
“I was . . . terrified,” said Shamika Peterson, 20. “I thought I was going to die.”
Peterson and Joe Masoraca, who work in different offices on the 44th floor, boarded the elevator Monday and pressed a button for the lobby. “We were on our way down when, all of a sudden, the elevator dropped, like a bungee jump,” Peterson said.
The elevator dropped about 400 feet before a safety system slowed it and halted it at the 4th floor.
Peterson was treated at a hospital for neck and shoulder pain; Masoraca refused medical treatment.
