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Wind gust reportedly caused the mast to collapse during a severe storm Jinzhou Radio & TV Tower, Jinzhou Town, Jinzhou, Hebei, China: July 23, 2009: Free-standing steel lattice tower 186.8 Storm [27] KRKO Radio Towers September 4, 2009: Guyed steel lattice mast ? Terrorism Two masts WLHR-FM Radio Tower Lavonia, GA, US January 30, 2010: Guyed ...
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 Warszawie) 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]
This is a list of structural failures and collapses of buildings and other structures including bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Lighting on a Houston radio tower reportedly failed just days before it was hit by a helicopter on Sunday, killing four people in a fiery explosion that toppled the tower and left debris scattered ...
The crash happened near Engelke Street and North Ennis Street just before 8 p.m. when a helicopter slammed into a communication tower behind homes in Houston’s Second Ward, causing a large ...
Radio tower lights inoperable days before the crash. The tower's lights were reported as inoperable on October 16, according to KHOU 11. The story is developing.
A guy wire insulator eyebolt failed sending the insulator crashing into the tower, knocking it out of plumb. It collapsed in 1964 on repair of the structural damage caused by the insulator. The collapsing tower killed four construction contract workers, three on the tower and one on the ground. The collapse also destroyed the transmitter building.
Two tower workers, Lawrence A. Sukalec, 59, of Valier, Illinois, and Daniel E. Goff, 25, of Sesser, Illinois, were killed in the process, and three were injured on the ground. [1] The collapse occurred as strengthening measures were being taken so the 30+ year-old tower could accommodate the added weight of digital television transmission ...