Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 7:24:10 GMT -6
The crew operating a crane in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning took note of the wind gusts accompanying the falling snow.
The workers, officials said, decided they needed to lower the crane to a secure level, and so around 8 a.m., they began to bring down its boom, which stretched 565 feet toward the sky.
But instead of a steady, controlled descent, the crane began to topple over suddenly before plunging into a free fall and crashing onto Worth Street in TriBeCa.
A man walking on the street was killed by the falling crane, and the surrounding blocks were littered with debris and stricken by panic as people who had been headed to work fled from what some thought was a bomb exploding.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/nyregion/crane-collapse-lower-manhattan.html
The workers, officials said, decided they needed to lower the crane to a secure level, and so around 8 a.m., they began to bring down its boom, which stretched 565 feet toward the sky.
But instead of a steady, controlled descent, the crane began to topple over suddenly before plunging into a free fall and crashing onto Worth Street in TriBeCa.
A man walking on the street was killed by the falling crane, and the surrounding blocks were littered with debris and stricken by panic as people who had been headed to work fled from what some thought was a bomb exploding.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/nyregion/crane-collapse-lower-manhattan.html