holy crap! Huge winds take down a crane that spans several blocks when it hits. <blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Caught on camera: Horrifying Manhattan crane collapse caught on camera<a href="https://t.co/l4u42kxk0G">https://t.co/l4u42kxk0G</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/695644836813078528">February 5, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Looks like a pre-planned controlled demolition. No way winds can bring something like that down on its own.
same vid is in the OP. The twitter link just might not display immediately. The vid is from a single guy. Would like to see the original with no cussing beeps though.
Didn't catch that. My bad. Just wanted to add audio. Crazy situation. I can't figure out how those huge cranes stay balanced in the first place.
note to self: if filming something that might be important -- watch the language. Or submit the vid without sound. No need to come off as a jackass.
If you read the articles, it fell while they were trying to bring it down out of the wind. That's why not as many injuries, because they had people clearing the way for bringing it down. Also, articles says they applied for an extension to make it 500+ feet, and they actually were allowed to extend it, yesterday. But the wind today made them try to bring it back down.
What was the haunting drone like sound heard in the video, was it the howling winds or was it the pressure of the bending steel? Or was it neither of the above and from the inside of the building from where the video was filmed?
So when bring it down quickly he over extended forward weight? Screw cranes, heights and all forms of potential energy.
