List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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Template:Short description This is a list of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers.

Masts and towers can collapse as a result of natural disasters, such as storms and fires; from engineering defects; and from accidents, sabotage or warfare.

List of collapses

Location Date Mode of construction Height
(meters) 		Reason for collapse Remarks
Template:Flagdeco Poldhu, Cornwall, England Template:Dts 20 wooden poles arranged in a circle 64 Storm Identical design to South Wellfleet installation. Replaced by four free-standing wooden lattice towers
Template:Flagdeco South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States Template:Dts 20 wooden poles arranged in a circle 64 Storm Identical design to Poldhu installation. Replaced by 4 free-standing wooden lattice towers.
Template:Flagdeco Machrihanish, Scotland[1] Template:Dts Guyed steel tubular mast 128 Storm Used for transatlantic communication with Brant Rock, Massachusetts, U.S. Never replaced.
Template:Flagdeco Nauen, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 200 Storm Was the oldest continuously operating radio transmitting installation in the world.
Template:Flagdeco Java, Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) Template:Dts ? ? Lightning
Template:Flagdeco Norddeich, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast ? Storm Three towers collapsed
Template:Flagdeco Place of Magdeburg Transmitter, Berlin, Germany Template:Dts Guyed mast on roof top ? Guy cable rusted through
Template:Flagdeco Western mast of Zeesen transmitter, Zeesen, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 210 Collapse at construction
Template:Flagdeco Munich-Stadelheim, Germany Template:Dts Free standing wood lattice tower 75 Storm Two towers snapped off 25 metres above ground
Template:Flagdeco Langenberg, Germany Template:Dts Free standing wood lattice tower 150 Tornado Replaced by triangle antenna
Template:Flagdeco Liechtenstein-Haberfeld transmitter Template:Dts Storm
Template:Flagdeco Utbremen Radio Tower, Bremen, Germany Template:Dts Free standing wood lattice tower 90 Lightning Replaced by steel tower
Template:Flagdeco Radio Normandie Transmitter, Tower West, Fécamp, France[2] Template:Dts Free standing lattice tower 113 Storm
Template:Flagdeco Langenberg, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast 51 Storm Two masts of a triangle aerial
Template:Flagdeco Schwerin-Möwenburgstrasse transmitter, Schwerin, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 120 Storm
Template:Flagdeco Hamburg-Billwerder, West Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 198 Storm Partial destruction of a guyed mast under construction
Template:Flagdeco Augusta, Michigan Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast Aircraft collision Former Michigan Governor Kim Sigler, who was piloting the plane, and three passengers were killed.
Template:Flagdeco Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Template:Dts Steel lattice mast Windstorm WENS television. The lower part of the tower is still visible and in use.
File:Flag of Cyprus (1922–1960).svg Nicosia, Cyprus Template:Dts Sabotage Destroyed by EOKA rebels
Template:Flagdeco WOAI, Selma, Texas[3] Template:Dts[4] Guyed steel lattice mast 100 Aircraft collision Hit by a B-29.[4]
Template:Flagdeco Ochsenkopf, West Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast 50 Ice Replaced by concrete tower
Template:Flagdeco KAYS-TV Tower, Hays, Kansas Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast 224 Storm with 105 kt winds[5] Top 150Script error: No such module "String".m of the tower toppled. Replaced within three months by a mast 251Script error: No such module "String".m tall.
Template:Flagdeco KOBR-TV Tower, Caprock, New Mexico Template:Dts Guyed lattice steel mast 491 Storm Replaced by new mast of same height
Template:Flagdeco LORAN-C location transmitter, Carolina Beach, North Carolina, US Template:Dts Lattice Tower 191 Storm Tower buckled at 2/3 of height. Tower carried radials (wires attached radially in a horizontal plane) on its top although it was not designed for them.
Template:Flagdeco Villebon-sur-Yvette, France Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast ? Terrorism
Template:Flagdeco LORAN-C transmitter Ejde, Ejde, Faroe Islands Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 190 Material fault Slip of guy
Template:Flagdeco KGW Tower, Portland, Oregon, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 180 Storm Columbus Day Storm of 1962
Template:Flagdeco Angissq LORAN-C transmitter, Angissq, Greenland Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 411 Material fault Replaced by a 214 m (704 ft)) tall mast radiator
Template:Flagdeco Yap LORAN-C transmitter, Yap Island, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (modern-day Micronesia) Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 305 Collapsed during construction
Template:Flagdeco Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter, Japan Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 411 Maintenance work The collapsing mast also destroyed the transmitter building. Six persons were killed.
Template:Flagdeco SES8 Tower, Mount Burr, South Australia, Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 200 Structural failure during guy wire tension testing
Template:Flagdeco KXJB-TV mast, Galesburg, North Dakota Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 628 Helicopter collision
Template:Flagdeco WLBT Tower, Raymond, Mississippi Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice 487 F5 tornado Replaced with 609.3 m tower which collapsed in 1997
Template:Flagdeco KBIM-TV, at Caprock, New Mexico Template:Dts unknown 411 Unknown [6]
Template:Flagdeco XHI-TV Tower, Ciudad Obregón, Mexico Template:Dts ? 200 Hurricane Kristen Replaced with a temporary tower; station relocated to Yucuribampo Hill
Template:Flagdeco Waltham mast, UK Template:Dts Guyed tubular steel mast 290 Storm High winds caused oscillations in the mast structure
Template:Flagdeco WNBC-AM, WCBS-AM, at High Island, New York,[7] Template:Dts Guyed lattice steel mast 161 Aircraft collision
Template:Flagdeco KELO TV Tower, Rowena, South Dakota Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 609 Airplane collision during thunderstorm
Template:Flagdeco WAEO Tower, Starks, Wisconsin Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 524 Collapse due to plane collision with guy wire
Template:Flagdeco Marnach, Luxembourg Template:Dts ? Plane crash ?
Template:Flagdeco Emley Moor, Great Britain Template:Dts Guyed tubular steel mast 385 Ice Replaced by 330 m free-standing concrete tower
Template:Flagdeco Orlunda, Sweden Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 250 Lightning The base insulator was destroyed
Template:Flagdeco KOIN-TV Towers, Portland, Oregon Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 305 & 213 Ice Two towers collapsed
Template:Flagdeco KSTP-TV and WCCO-TV, Shoreview, Minnesota Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 411 Structural failure during construction Seven technicians were killed while lifting the first of three large antenna sections into place at the top of the tower.[8]
Template:FlagdecoKönigs Wusterhausen, East Germany Template:Dts Lattice steel tower 243 Storm
Template:Flagdeco Bithlo (near Orlando), Florida, US Template:Dts Guyed Steel Tower 457 Removal of load-bearing diagonals during FM antenna installation Multi-station tower supporting antennas of TV stations WDBO-TV, WFTV, and WMFE-TV, and radio stations WDBO-FM and WDIZ-FM – two workers on tower killed
Template:Flagdeco KCRG-TV Tower Walker, Iowa Template:Dts Guyed Steel Tower 598 Tower modifications Tower being modified prior to installation of Iowa Public Television side-mounted antenna – five workers on tower site killed
Template:Flagdeco TV Mast Brest - Roc'h Trédudon, France Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 218 Terrorism A slightly higher tower, 225Script error: No such module "String".m, has been built since.
Template:Flagdeco KELO TV Tower, Rowena, South Dakota, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 610 Blizzard
Template:Flagdeco Sendemast SL3, Burg bei Magdeburg, East Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 350 Material fault
Template:Flagdeco Pic de Nore transmitter, Pic de Nore, France Template:Dts Concrete tower 80 Storm Storm tore pinnacle down
Template:Flagdeco CKVR Television Tower, Barrie, Ontario, Canada Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 305 Aircraft collision
Template:Flagdeco KSLA-TV Tower, Mooringsport, LA Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 521 Undetermined 1709 feet HAAT. Erected November 17, 1964. Had elevator, RCA Travelling Wave pylon antenna for Channel 12 (System M), land mobile antennas, all lost. RCA contractor for erection, stainless subcontractor. No definitive cause ever found for collapse. Speculation of "galloping guy lines" (mechanical standing waves in one of the guys), causing stress-to-failure in the guys due to rapidly alternating strain.
Template:Flagdeco TV mast of Shaanxi No.9 Transmitting Station, Chang'an, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Template:Dts[9] Guyed steel tubular mast 26 Ice
Template:Flagdeco WJJY TV Mast, Bluffs, IL Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 491 24 two-inch coupling bolts connecting the second and third sections of the tower snapped due to ice formation In August 1969. This tower was one of the three tallest structures in the Northern Hemisphere and its transmitter radiated the most powerful UHF-TV signal in the world.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". TV channel 14 (470-476 MHz). Collapsed Easter Sunday. Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
Template:Flagdeco WAND TV Tower, Decatur Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 400 Upper section of antenna broke loose and destroyed guy wires due to ice storm WAND and WJJY used the same RCA UHF antennas, mfg in 1969. TV channel 17 (488-494 MHz) Collapsed Easter Sunday.
Template:Flagdeco Nebraska Education Tower, Angora Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 457 Ice
Template:Flagdeco Zehlendorf bei Oranienburg, East Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 352 Aircraft collision
Template:Flagdeco Vysílač Krašov, Bezvěrov, Czechoslovakia Template:Dts Guyed mast of lattice steel 305 Ice Mast was predamaged
Template:Flagdeco Blåbärskullen transmitter, Sunne, Sweden Template:Dts Guyed mast of lattice steel 323 Ice Pinnacle with broadcasting antennas fell down, height afterwards 274 metres
Template:Flagdeco LORAN-C transmitter Jan Mayen, Jan Mayen, Norway Template:Dts Guyed mast of lattice steel 190 Ice Guy supports were improperly installed
Template:Flagdeco Delimora Transmitter, Malta Guyed mast of lattice steel 88 Melting of guy supports The guy wires were made of polymer, which melted as a result of a high electric field strength storm
Template:Flagdeco Dudelange Radio Tower, Luxembourg Template:Dts Lattice steel tower 285 Aircraft collision Debris of the tower killed a couple in a house near the tower.
Template:Flagdeco WWAY tower, Winnabow, North Carolina Template:Dts Lattice steel tower ? Aircraft collision Hit by a military jet. Replaced with one nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) tall.
Template:Flagdeco WCIQ Tower, Mount Cheaha, Alabama Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast ? Ice storm
Template:Flagdeco main mast of Shaanxi No.10 Transmitting Station, Chunhua, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China Template:Dts[10] Guyed steel lattice mast 129[11] High winds and corrosion
Template:Flagdeco Senior Road Tower, Missouri City, Texas, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 569 Guy support wire severed Total collapse during installation of 6-ton FM antenna on new 1800 ft. tower. Five technicians killed: two on the hoist riding the FM antenna up and three on the tower. Determined insufficient sized bolts on the makeshift lifting lug extension failed. The falling debris severed one of the tower's guy wires which caused the tower to whip back and forth and collapse.
Template:Flagdeco KANU tower, Lawrence, KS Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 184 Sabotage Guy wires severed
Template:Flagdeco CKX-TV Craig Television Tower, Canada Template:Dts Guyed mast 412 Ice
Template:Flagdeco TV mast Wavre, Belgium Template:Dts Guyed mast 315 Storm
Template:Flagdeco KWWL, Rowley, Iowa Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 610 Ice
Template:Flagdeco Bielstein, West Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast 298 Ice
Template:Flagdeco San Francisco, CA, US - Candlestick Hill Template:Dts Self-supporting tower 137 High wind KYA transmitter placed in service in 1937. Failure may have resulted from tower leg insulator replacement where all-thread rod was not long enough to fully engage securing nut.
Template:Flagdeco Caroline 558 and Radio Monique mast, aboard MV Ross Revenge, off English coast Template:Dts Lattice steel tower 92 Force 8 storm Tallest ever mast aboard any ship. It was replaced by horizontal wire antenna between two shorter masts.
Template:Flagdeco KTUL Tower Coweta, OK Template:Dts Lattice steel guyed tower 582 Ice storm Listed at 1909 feet
Template:Flagdeco a mast in NRTA Transmitting Station 501, Anning, Kunming, Yunnan, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 143.5 Material fault and high winds[12]
Template:Flagdeco KTVO-TV Tower, Colony, Missouri Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 610 Maintenance Crew was replacing cross support beams at the 200 meter level. The mast broke at that spot, the bottom 200 meters fell to the south, the top fell straight down. All three workers on the mast were killed.
Template:Flagdeco Zhumadian Prefecture TV & FM Relay Station, Zhumadian, Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan, China Template:Dts[13] Guyed steel lattice mast 55 Ice storm
Template:Flagdeco KGO (AM) towers Newark, California Template:Dts ? 91 Earthquake Three towers damaged
Template:Flagdeco WRAL-TV & WPTF-TV towers, Auburn Template:Dts Two guyed steel tube framework masts 609 Ice Unusually heavy ice concentrated at top predominantly on one side of towers caused asymmetrical load. Dislodged essentially as one piece during rapid warming; sudden unloading caused dynamic failure.
Template:Flagdeco Minnkota power cooperative, near Langdon, North Dakota, US Template:Dts guyed steel triangular tower 107 Underground corrosion of guy wire steel and anchor shaft Two tower service personnel were seriously injured
Template:Flagdeco RÚV long wave radio mast, Vatnsendahæð, Reykjavik, Iceland Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 150 Storm
Template:Flagdeco WDIO-TV Duluth, Minnesota, US Template:Dts Guyed steel triangular tower 259 Ice and high wind Freezing rain, accompanied at time with thunder, coated the city of Duluth with as much as six inches of ice. 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. Telephone and power lines snapped leaving Duluth and many northeastern Minnesota communities without utility services for 24 hours. The DNR reported that four million pine trees were damaged or destroyed. - NOAA NWS Duluth, MN
Template:Flagdeco Hekou MW Transmitting Station, Hekou, Honghe, Yunnan, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 133.5 High winds
Template:Flagdeco Warsaw radio mast, Konstantynów, Poland Template:Dts Guyed steel tube framework mast 648 Maintenance Replacement by facility in Solec Kujawski
Template:Flagdeco Kuruk-tagh Relay Station, Korla, Bayingolin, Xinjiang, China Template:Dts Lattice steel tower 60 High winds
Template:Flagdeco WCIX TV Tower Homestead, Florida Template:Dts Guyed steel tower 549 Hurricane Andrew Rebuilt by LeBlanc Tower of Canada
Template:Flagdeco COMMSTA Miami Template:Dts Guyed mast (insulated) 91 Hurricane Andrew Collapse of 2 masts
Template:Flagdeco Cape Race LORAN-C transmitter, Cape Race, Canada Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 411 Material fault Fatigue failure of the eyebolt head in a compression cone insulator on structural guy caused swing-in damage, which resulted in structural collapse
Template:Flagdeco LORAN-C transmitter Kargaburan, Kargaburan, Turkey Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 191 Snowstorm Tower had construction faults
Template:Flagdeco WCOV-TV Tower, Montgomery, Alabama, US Template:Dts ? 242 Tornado
Template:Flagdeco Yosami Transmitting Station mast No.8, Kariya, Aichi, Japan Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 250 Structural failure during dismantling One worker was killed and four workers were injured.
Template:Flagdeco Langenberg, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 160 Maintenance
Template:Flagdeco KXTX-TV Tower Cedar Hill, Texas Template:Dts Guyed steel tower 468 Maintenance for DTV install Three died when tower collapsed after a gin pole ran off its track and snapped a guy wire
Template:Flagdeco Grigoriopol transmitter, Moldova Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 350 Ice Two masts collapsed
250
Template:Flagdeco KXJB-TV mast, North Dakota, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 628 Ice
Template:Flagdeco KNOE-TV Tower, Columbia, Louisiana Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 606 Maintenance One killed, two injured when workers failed to install temporary braces
Template:Flagdeco WLBT Tower, Raymond, Mississippi Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice 609 Maintenance Three killed - temporary braces failed during HDTV antenna upgrade
Template:Flagdeco Sakaide Transmission Tower, Kagawa Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan Template:Dts Steel lattice 73 Vandalism, possible sabotage 76 bolts were removed without authorization from the base of the tower. The perpetrator has not been identified to this date.[14][15]Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Template:Flagdeco WKY-AM-TV Tower, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US Template:Dts Guyed mast 293 Tornado
Template:Flagdeco TV Tower Avala, Serbia Template:Dts Concrete tower (with observation deck) 203 Air raid (NATO bombardment during the Kosovo war)
Template:Flagdeco Bozhou Educational TV Tower, Xuege Subdistrict, Bozhou, Anhui, China Template:Dts Square lattice roof top tower 98 (40 + 58 (building + tower))[16] Storm[16] The tower on the roof collapsed to street. Two persons were killed.[17]
Template:Flagdeco WMBD AM radio tower, Peoria, Illinois, US Template:Dts Thunderstorm winds Early morning thunderstorm wind event with estimated damage of $500,000[18]
Template:Flagdeco WRMD-Tower, St. Petersburg, Florida, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 198 Helicopter crash Three died when a medical helicopter hit a guy wire in clear weather and crashed
Template:Flagdeco WNWI 1080-Towers, Oak Lawn (Chicago), Illinois, USScript error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 61 Sabotage Two towers collapsed
Template:Flagdeco KXEO/KWWR-Tower, Mexico, MO, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 123 Storm
Template:Flagdeco Linquan Radio & TV Transmitting Station (old), Linquan, Fuyang, Anhui, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice tower 103[19] Structural failure during dismantling Two workers were killed, and one worker was seriously injured.[20]
Template:Flagdeco CBC Tower, Shawinigan, QC, Canada Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 331.5 (307.1 + 24.4 (structure + antenna)) Controlled implosion after aircraft crash caused serious damage five days earlier Rebuilt in 2003, the new tower has almost the same height, i.e. 326.8Script error: No such module "String".m (307.1Script error: No such module "String".m for the structure, but the antenna is shorter (19.7Script error: No such module "String".m)).
Template:Flagdeco Angara transmitter, Northern Mast, Angara, Russia Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast carrying a T-antenna 205 Deteriorated support guys
Template:Flagdeco World Trade Center North Tower, New York City, NY Template:Dts Truses and Axis 526.8 (417 + 109.8 (roof + antenna)) Terrorist attack Tower was destroyed as a result of the September 11 attacks in which a commercial airliner flew into the side of the building causing it and the broadcast tower to collapse under its own weight.
Template:Flagdeco Krasny Bor transmitter, Russia Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 258 Helicopter collision
Template:Flagdeco a mast in Datong MW Transmitting Station, Yunzhou District, Datong, Shanxi, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 151.5 High winds and corrosion
Template:Flagdeco WKFT, North Carolina, US Template:Dts Guyed steel tower 533.1 Airplane crash Pilot killed and the tower was destroyed
Template:Flagdeco Nanxian Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Nanxian, Yiyang, Hunan, China Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 100[21] Storm
Template:Flagdeco KDUH-TV Mast, Hemingford, Nebraska, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 599 Maintenance Two workers killed, three injured on ground
Template:Flagdeco WVAH-TV Tower, West Virginia, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 473 Ice
Template:Flagdeco WPAY-Tower, Portsmouth, Ohio, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 200 Ice
Template:Flagdeco WTNV-FM Tower, Jackson, Tennessee, US Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 176 Tornado
Template:Flagdeco WMBD Tower, Peoria, Illinois, US Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower ? Tornado Collapse of three towers, following collapse of larger single tower at same site by straight-line winds on 20 April 2000
Template:Flagdeco KETV TV Tower Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 415 Reconstruction work
Template:Flagdeco WIFR TV tower Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 222 Storm (derecho)
Template:Flagdeco WAAY-TV - TV Mast, Huntsville, Alabama, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 305 unknown Three workers killed
Template:Flagdeco Utrecht, Netherlands Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 45
Template:Flagdeco WJDB Transmitter Grove Hill, AL Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 131 Hurricane Ivan Replacement tower constructed shortly thereafter. Also knocked Clarke County, AL, Sheriff's Office off the air (KWO611)
Template:Flagdeco WPMI-TV Tower, Robertsdale, Alabama, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 518 Storm Hurricane Ivan
Template:Flagdeco Peterborough, Great Britain Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 163 Fire (suspected vandalism) Temporary replacement mast constructed shortly thereafter. New permanent mast entered full service in February 2006.
Template:Flagdeco KFI Mast, La Mirada, CA, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 195 Aircraft collision
Template:Flagdeco WLGA Transmitter Tower (formerly WSWS-TV Transmitter Tower), Cusseta, Georgia, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 538 Replacement tower completed September 15, 2005.
Template:Flagdeco Nebraska Education Tower Atlanta, Atlanta, Nebraska, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 325 Aircraft collision All three aircraft occupants killed
Template:Flagdeco KLTV-TV Mast, Tyler, TX (Red Springs, TX) Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 329 Undetermined 1078 feet HAAT. Erected in 1981. No definitive cause ever found for collapse. Speculation was that the collapse was directly or indirectly related to the recent installation of their digital television antenna. The collapse destroyed the tower, KLTV's analog and digital antennas, KLTV's digital transmitter, and FM station KVNE's antenna. The analog transmitter was undamaged, and within a few days was moved to KLTV's backup tower in east Tyler. The collapse occurred the day after Raycom Media officially took ownership of the station.
Template:Flagdeco WALB-TV Mast, Doerun, GA Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast ? Demolition mishap While the tower for then-sister station WFXL, which had been damaged by a collision with a military helicopter, was being imploded, one of the tower's guy wires wrapped around one for WALB's tower, as feared by engineers prior to the implosion. As a result, WALB's tower collapsed. A new tower for both WALB and WFXL was later constructed, which began broadcasting on July 3, 2007, at 11:35 p.m.[22]
Template:Flagdeco Torre VIP de Rádio & TV, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 174 Maintenance One person was killed
Template:Flagdeco WACS-TV tower Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 329 EF3 tornado Americus, Georgia, was struck by the tornado a few minutes later
Template:Flagdeco WSKY-DT Tower, Camden County, NC, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 230 Guy wire anchor failure Under construction. Also destroyed transmitter building. Was planned for a height of 1,036 ft (315.77 m).[23]
Template:Flagdeco WCFE-DT, Clinton, County, NY, US Template:Dts Guyed steel tower 136 Structural failure 400-foot transmitter tower located on Averil Peak, NY completely collapsed as a result of accumulation of ice and snow from the April 2007 Nor'easter. Partially damaged the transmitter building at the base. New tower erected and back in service Oct, 9 2007.
Template:Flagdeco Browns Summit Crown Castle Broadcasting Tower, Browns Summit, Texas, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 244 Restoration work
Template:Flagdeco WNEP-TV Tower, Penobscot Knob Pennsylvania Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 244 Ice Also damaged transmitter building and doppler radar.[24]
Template:Flagdeco WVIA-TV Tower, Penobscot Knob Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 510 Ice 300 ft. section lost from top of tower[25]
Template:Flagdeco KATV-TV Tower, Redfield, Jefferson County, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 609 Maintenance Restringing guy wires[26]
Template:Flagdeco a mast in Inner Mongolia Transmitting Station 610, Tumed Left Banner, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China Template:Dts[27] Guyed steel lattice mast 156 High winds
Template:Flagdeco Emmis Television Wichita Tower Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 326 Ice
Template:Flagdeco 2QN Tower, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 102 Storm Wind gust reportedly caused the mast to collapse during a severe storm
Template:Flagdeco Jinzhou Radio & TV Tower, Jinzhou Town, Jinzhou, Hebei, China Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 186.8 Storm[28]
Template:Flagdeco KRKO Radio Towers Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast ? Terrorism Two masts
Template:Flagdeco WLHR-FM Radio Tower Lavonia, GA, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 86 Sabotage Guyed wires cut
Template:Flagdeco a MW mast[29] and 3 SW masts[30] in Qinghai Transmitting Station 920, Gyêgu, Yushu, Qinghai, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast (MW)
Guyed steel tubular mast (SW) 		76 (MW) & 25 (SW) 2010 Yushu earthquake
Template:Flagdeco Laomaling Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Pingshun, Changzhi, Shanxi, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 72 High winds
Template:Flagdeco WEAU TV/Radio Tower Fairchild, WI, US Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 609 Ice, high winds Weather-related
Template:Flagdeco Zendstation Smilde, TV/Radio Tower, Hoogersmilde, The Netherlands Template:Dts Guyed steel tube mast on concrete tower 303 Fire Tubular steel superstructure collapsed, new steel lattice superstructure constructed (2012) on top of existing concrete base tower
Template:Flagdeco Zhutiao TV Transposer Station, Niushou, Fancheng, Xiangyang, Hubei, China Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 70 Storm
Template:Flagdeco LRL312 Mega 98.3, LR5 Pop Radio 101.5 and LRL317 FM Federal Template:Dts Guyed 210 Fire Fire started in a leftover deposit close to one of the guy wire anchors.[31][32][33]
Template:Flagdeco Baofeng Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Baofeng, Pingdingshan, Henan, China Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 136[34] High winds[35]
Template:Flagdeco Longwave transmitter Europe 1, 280 metres mast, Felsberg-Berus, Germany Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 280 Ragged guy wire Pinnacle and upper sections fell down
Template:Flagdeco main mast of Gwangju CBS Sillyong Transmitting Station, Gwangsan District, Gwangju, South Korea Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 110 Typhoon Bolaven (2012) [36]
Template:Flagdeco Nam Dinh PTTH Transmitting Station 2, Nam Dinh, Vietnam Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 180 Storm [37]
Template:Flagdeco Boll Relay Transmitter, Oberndorf-Boll, Germany Template:Dts Lattice tower 30 Truck collision[38]
Template:Flagdeco Houston public safety radio tower Template:Dts Guyed 152 Unknown
Template:Flagdeco VOV Quang Binh Transmitting Station Dong Hoi, Quang Binh, Vietnam Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 150 Storm [39]
Template:Flagdeco Karachun TV Tower, Sloviansk, Ukraine Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 222 Artillery shelling During the final days of the siege of Sloviansk Ukrainian Government forces positioned on the Mount Karachun were shelled by the Russian proxies. As a result, the guy wires failed and tower collapsed.[40]
The new tower 50 m shorter was opened on December 5, 2016, in place of the destroyed one.[41]
Template:Flagdeco CRTV Mast, Logbessou, Douala, Cameroon Template:Dts Guyed 200 Corrosion Mast collapsed during replacement of corroded leg at 160Script error: No such module "String".m. Four riggers killed.[42]
Template:Flagdeco Rekowo Radio Mast, Rekowo, Poland Template:Dts Guyed 60 Storm
Template:Flagdeco Häglared transmitter, Borås, Sweden Template:Dts Guyed mast of lattice steel 332 Sabotage Roughly half of the mast fell after guy wires had been sabotaged.
Template:Flagdeco RTI Lukang Branch north array tower T1 & T3, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 125 Typhoon Megi[43]
Template:Flagdeco Yancheng Radio & TV Transmitting Station (old), Tinghu District, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 135 Structural failure during dismantling Two workers were killed.[44]
Template:Flagdeco SPR TV tower, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Template:Dts ? ? High winds[45]
Template:Flagdeco KOZK Ozarks Public Television, Fordland, MO Template:Dts Guyed 597 Maintenance Six workers were performing routine maintenance at 105 ft on the tower when it collapsed, one worker was killed.
Template:Flagdeco Amami FM Ariya Transmitting Station, Amami, Kagoshima, Japan Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast[46] 30[47] Typhoon Trami Replaced by a 25m steel monopole tower.
Template:Flagdeco a backup mast in Fujian Transmitting Station 103 Wuliting Site, Jin'an District, Fuzhou, Fujian, China Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 76 Excavator collision with guy wire[48]
Template:Flagdeco KOLN Tower, Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, USA Template:Dts Guyed 500.4 Ice Collapsed during an ice storm.[49]
Template:Flagdeco a tower in RTI Lukang Branch south array, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 75 Typhoon Nesat[50]
Template:Flagdeco a tower in RTI Lukang Branch north array, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan Template:Dts Free-standing steel lattice tower 125 Typhoon Nesat[50]
Template:Flagdeco KDLO-TV Towers, Florence, South Dakota, USA Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 548.6 & 243.8 Ice 2 towers collapsed during an ice storm.[51]
Template:Flagdeco SBA Communications Tower,[52] Houston, Texas, USA Template:Dts Guyed steel lattice mast 304.5 Helicopter collision Helicopter crashed into the tower, killing four people on board, including a young child.[53] The aircraft warning lights on the tower had a history of not working.[54]

References

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  1. ↑ "Fall of  a Wireless Telegraphy Tower  in  a Gale" by  W.  A.  S.  Douglas, Symons's Meteorological Magazine, December, 1906, pages 201-205.
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  16. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
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  50. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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