The local TV station ran a short spot on the accident. They said workers
were replacing support (guy) wires, when the tower fell. The video tape
showed the tower to be a crumpled pile of metal, that seemed to fall in a
rather small radius. It also showed several cars that were damaged by the
tower. I assume the cars belonged to TV Station workers. They reported 3
tower men were killed in the accident. No ground injuries were reported.
They said it was one of the tallest TV towers in the country.
W4YV
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> From: Matt Trott <aa7bg@3rivers.net>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Accident
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 11:17 PM
>
> At 11:44 AM 10-28-97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Does anyone have any of the details on the tower accident in Alabama??
We
> >where getting ready for CQWW and just heard about it over the air on
20m.
>
> The news blip I heard said they were reguting the tower (3000') and she
> came down with a couple men aboard.
>
> Matt--K7BG
>
>
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