Huge crane in NYC collapses down a main street, 1 death, several badly injured(video)

[Summitric]

Huge crane in New York City collapses down a main street and 1 dead and many injured.... here's the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sk9nUiQ6v6c

 

[Mike270412]

1 dead, 3 injured in massive New York City crane collapse - National | Globalnews.ca

 

[Mike270412]

How the PHUCK does that happen. Somebody screwed up big time!!!

 

[Puba]

One can only speculate how that happens.
With a fatality and injuries of the public I sure hope their maintenance and certification records are in order along with operator comptence eg ticket.

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[wilson74]

Similar to Big Blue.

 

[arff]

How the PHUCK does that happen. Somebody screwed up big time!!!

Gravity....

 

[Grizzly4323]

Looked like the boom and jib where hangin out there a loooong way!!

 

[the_real_wild1]

Saw the video on Facebook. Crazy.

 

[meierjn]

Wow. Scary stuff...

 

[rzrgade]

Wind ....

 

[nathan#19]

I say wind all the way. Nothing broke and the crane was inspected the day before. It was being boomed to the ground so I would expect the main to be at 80 degrees and the luffer all the way down until it landed, without knowing the boom length combinations. But 565' is a lot of boom for the wind to grab and 250,000Lb of cwt can only hold so much wind...

 

[Cdnfireman]

I guess your number is up when you get splatted 500 feet down the road by a crane in the middle of a city. Sheesh!! What are the chances???

 

[jdk111]

I say wind all the way.

That, or the cribbing under the front of the tracks failed..... or the street under the cribbing gave way.