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main mast of Shaanxi No.10 Transmitting Station, Chunhua, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China: May 2, 1982 [10] Guyed steel lattice mast 129 [11] High winds and corrosion Senior Road Tower, Missouri City, Texas, US December 7, 1982: Guyed steel lattice mast 569 Guy support wire severed Total collapse during installation of 6-ton FM antenna on new 1800 ft ...
FM-/TV-Mast of Marnach transmitter: Marnach ... Guyed mast: 1970: Orlunda radio transmitter central mast collapse: Orlunda, Sweden: Guyed mast: 1970: West Gate Bridge:
The Senior Road Tower is a guyed mast for FM and TV broadcasting, measuring 1,971 feet (601 m) tall, located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County near Missouri City, Texas, United States. The present mast was built in 1983. It replaced a previous tower that collapsed in a construction accident in December 1982, killing five workers.
This is a merged and tidied up replacement for transmission tower and radio mast. I've split some content, that seems less relevant in an 'overview' piece like this one, into two other pages: mast radiator and radio masts and towers - catastrophic collapses.Spliced 17:40, 14 June 2005 (UTC)
The mast was constructed in 1965 and it came into service on 20 December of that year. As built it was a tubular pipe 900 feet (274.3 m) long by 9 feet (2.7 m) in diameter, surmounted by a 365 feet (111.3 m) lattice upper section (an identical mast was constructed in 1964 at Emley Moor near Huddersfield in Yorkshire , but the other mast ...
The tower collapsed because the building it was on collapsed, does that not count as a catastrophic collapse? It did have radio and television stations on its mast, and there are other towers listed that have combined radio and television transmitters on them.
The Warsaw Radio Mast (centre) from a distance (as pictured in 1989) Warsaw Radio Mast compared with some other tall structures The Warsaw Radio Mast (Polish: Maszt radiowy w Konstantynowie) was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and was the world's tallest structure at 2,120 ft (646.30 m) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. [1]
The tower's current official name, The Arqiva Tower, [4] is shown on a sign beside the offices at the base of the tower, but it is commonly known just as "Emley Moor Mast". [ 1 ] In 2021, the antenna was replaced, to accommodate frequency changes for mobile phone use, by a shorter antenna of 36 ft (11 m) but the structure still remains the ...