An enormous crane has collapsed onto a Manhattan street

[gedstar]

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http://www.thejournal.ie/manhattan-crane-2586748-Feb2016/

 

[Tom Mann]

Whoa! Thanks for posting that, Ged.

Tom

 

[dv8_fx]

OMG.... . Pity the casualties...

I foresee multiple lawsuits on the contractors involved.....

 

[peta62]

They were lucky it felt along the street and did not destroy some building with much more people. Thanks for info gedstar

 

[chrisdesign]

Unbelievable... horrible...scary too.

 

[peta62]

Unbelievable... horrible...scary too.

Exactly, they wrote it is a year since something similar happened. I wonder how can they work on such a tall crane with such a small base. You cannot beat physics, just a small wind concentrated by relatively narrow streets creates a monstrous power on such long leverage.