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Massive Crane Failure In The Netherlands

submitted by eric3579

9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago

Two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn have collapsed on to buildings with rescuers searching for victims.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33762806

12 Comments

Another angle of the failure with screaming and damage https://www.mobypicture.com/user/Royoooo/view/18349869

Aerial view of the aftermath https://youtu.be/sHz25E522Ec

Video of wreckage https://youtu.be/cwf08oKeX5o

Oops.

I stayed for the music

They said ~20 injured at first, but it looks like only a single person was injured in this whole mess. Shitload of luck I'll say...

Ahhhh... yeah we're going to need some REALLY big cranes... to get our really big cranes out of the river.

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I saw this on the local KABC7 news yesterday during my late lunch break.

AeroMechanical says...

Was that going wrong from the very moment the video started?Because it sure looked that way.

Eric3579 started the embed at a later point.

AeroMechanicalsaid:

Was that going wrong from the very moment the video started?Because it sure looked that way.

It's interesting to note that it's unclear whether "massive" refers to the cranes, or the fail.

@AeroMechanical put an extra 20 seconds on the beginning. Thanks

Eric3579 started the embed at a later point.

jokingly says...

Don't operate heavy machinery on weed!

Here's security camera footage of the collapse, the seconds just prior to @eric3579's third video link above:

(https://youtu.be/a022JK6mxLc)

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