Elevator Plummets 84 Floors with 6 Inside — and All Survive: We Thought 'We Were Going to Die'
Photo: George Rose/Getty Six people are grateful to be alive after the elevator they were riding in abruptly fell 84 floors — from the 95th to the 11th — on Friday in one of Chicago’s tallest buildings. The group remained stranded for hours after a broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to quickly plummet on Friday night at the former John Hancock Center (Chicago’s fourth-tallest building),WBBM reported. “At the beginning I believed we were going to die,” Jaime Montemayor told WBBM of the ordeal....