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The 850-foot WDIO-TV tower was toppled as winds gusted to 40 mph, buffeting the heavily ice-covered tower. The tower fell onto a nearby utility line which provided power to the remainder of Duluth's television and FM radio stations, and all but one AM radio station.
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.
The first, a 665 foot (203 m) half-wave mast was installed at radio station WABC's 50 kW transmitter at Wayne, New Jersey in 1931. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the 1930s it was found that the diamond shape of the Blaw-Knox tower had an unfavorable current distribution which increased the power emitted at high angles, causing multipath fading in the ...
Lighting on a Houston radio tower reportedly failed just days before it ... the helicopter was flying at an altitude of 600 feet when it slammed into the 1,000-foot-high tower just before 8 p.m ...
A large transmission tower collapsed into the Congaree River. This nonprofit says it belongs to this utility.
The helicopter, which departed from Ellington Airport in Houston for a sightseeing tour, crashed into the tower about 100 feet from the top of the 1,003-foot radio tower, added the report.
The tower broadcast KDUH-TV of Scottsbluff, a semi-satellite of Rapid City, South Dakota–based KOTA-TV. The tower collapsed on September 24, 2002, during reconstruction work. 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 ...
The helicopter was flying at an altitude of approximately 600 feet when it struck the 1,000-foot radio tower just before 8 p.m. Sunday, according to investigators and open-source data. No one on ...