The Bank of America Plaza is a 42-story

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located in

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, in the

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Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

, and was completed in 1986. At , it surpassed

One Tampa City Center One Tampa City Center, formerly known as GTE Center and Verizon Building, is an office skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It was the tallest building in the state for three years and the tallest building in the city until the completion of the Bank o ...

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, just four months after the

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, a 15-year-old amateur pilot, Charles Bishop, stole a Cessna plane and flew into the Bank of America building in

. While it killed him, there were no other injuries (because the crash was on a Saturday, when few people were in the building). A

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found in the wreckage expressed support for

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. Bishop had been taking prescription medicine for

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called Accutane that may have had the

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of depression or severe psychosis. 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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Plane incident

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