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 175.87 m (577.0 ft), 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.^[1] The structure contains around 20,000 square feet (1,900 m²) of rentable space per typical floor^[2] with a total of 783,930 square feet (72,829 m²) of rentable space.^[3]

On January 5, 2002, just four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a 15-year-old amateur pilot, Charles Bishop, stole a Cessna plane and flew into the Bank of America building in Downtown Tampa. 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.^[4] Bishop had been taking prescription medicine for acne called Accutane that may have had the side effect of depression or severe psychosis.^[5] 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.^[6]

• 2002 Tampa plane crash
• Downtown Tampa
• List of tallest buildings in Tampa