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> THE CGC COMMUNICATOR
> CGC #506
> Wednesday, March 27, 2002
> Robert F. Gonsett, W6VR, Editor
> Copyright 2002, Communications General Corporation (CGC)
>
> WKFT(TV) TOWER FALLS
>
> An 1,800-foot-tall tower for WKFT-TV, Channel 40,
>Fayetteville, NC, was toppled March 14 after a single engine
>plane apparently clipped one of the guy wires. Pilot David
>Dollar, age 27, was killed. Federal investigators are looking
>into the accident.
>
> Dollar was transporting bank checks and other documents to a
>processing facility. Witnesses said that paperwork was scattered
>everywhere. A woman and her son collected two garbage bags full
>of documents, which they said included canceled checks, titles,
>deeds and inter-office mail, all postmarked from Winterville,
>North Carolina.
>
> http://www.wral.com/news/1304816/detail.html
>
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>
> KKEZ(FM) TOWER COLLAPSES
>
> The 640-foot radio transmission tower for KKEZ(FM), Fort
>Dodge, IA, has collapsed according to a Messenger news article
>(see below). Officials do not believe that weather was a factor.
>The collapse is being investigated as a possible act of vandalism
>(cut guy wire/s).
>
> http://www.messengernews.net/news/n032002a.html
> http://www.kkez.com/main.html
>
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