[Towertalk] Fwd: CGC #506

[Tom Frenaye]

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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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