Showing posts with label crane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crane. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Now HERE'S A Strange Plane Crash

A little clumsy when it came to moving this plane
with a crane.  
Plane crashes are always bad. People get hurt and killed, and there's a lot of destruction.

As plane crashes go this one in India wasn't so bad, and - Bonus! - nobody was killed or injured.

This time, a crane was moving an abandoned Air India Airbus A320 from a airport to a nearby flight training center.

The crane was hoisting the plane over a wall to move it. As you'll see in this video, things didn't go so great:

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Scary! People Film Fatal Crane Collapse In NYC

The scene of a giant crane collapse in New York Friday
Photo by Stephanie Keith/New York Times. 
A crane collapsed during a snowstorm Friday morning in TriBeCa, Manhattan, killing one person and injuring three.

It's amazing more people weren't hurt, considering the collapsed came on a busy Manhattan street.

The construction crew was trying to lower the giant crane to secure it as winds increased during the storm. Something went wrong, and the whole thing collapsed.

A person in a nearby building captured the dramatic collapse. The people filming dropped a lot of F-bombs, which I would have done too if I'd witnessed this. (The swear words were bleeped out of the video you'll see below.)

Here it is