The Bank of America Plaza is a 42-story skyscraper located in Downtown Tampa, in the U.S. state of Florida, and was completed in 1986. At , it surpassed One Tampa City Center as the tallest building in Tampa, until completion of 100 North Tampa in 1992. The structure was originally known as Barnett Plaza. The structure contains around of rentable space per typical floor with a total of of rentable space.
Plane incident
On January 5, 2002, about four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a 15-year-old amateur pilot, Charles Bishop, stole a Cessna 172 plane and flew it into the Bank of America building. While it killed him, there were no other injuries (because the crash was on a Saturday, when few people were in the building). A suicide note found in the wreckage expressed support for Osama bin Laden.'Police: Tampa pilot voiced support for bin Laden' , CNN US, January 7, 2002 Bishop had been taking prescription medicine for acne called Accutane that may have had the side effect of depression or severe psychosis.Michael Fumento on Accutane & Charles Bishop on National Review Online His family later sued Hoffman-La Roche, the company that makes Accutane, for $70 million; however, an autopsy found no traces of the drug in the teenager's system.Elaine Silvestrini, 'Family Of Suicidal Pilot Drops Accutane Lawsuit', The Tampa Tribune, June 27, 2007. Retrieved 2012-07-07.
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