Tower crane falls over

I have no idea why it was moving horizontally before it collapsed.

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• crane
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• airplane
• car

[eliasshedd]

I run tower cranes for a living. Usually in building construction tower cranes are stationary, bolted into concrete. When tower cranes are mounted on rails they move very slowly (less than 50 feet per minute). There is a brake on the carrier wheels that automatically engage usually 3 seconds after placed in neutral. These brakes apparently failed. The crane probably hit the stops at the end of the rail stopping the bottom but obviously not the top:)

[7249xxl]

@marcel911 some cranes ar on rails just like this one. when its lifting the opperator uses brakes to stop the crane from moving. this time the opperator forgotten to lock thoes brakes so the crane could move free on his tracks. at the end the tracks stops and the crane fell of the tracks making it unstable whit the fall as result. i hope you get me this time greets :D

[piraat6666]

timber

[kalahari1955]

obviously russia

[spazmoso]

@gnarlyanimal i know a couple operators that have lost their cranes,1 for berglund cont and 1 in newyork cant remember the name.both union both the I Os fault

[klin1klinom]

Всё, пиздец.

[gnarlyanimal]

definatly not an iuoe operation thats for sure

[ShaurntheSheep]

did the driver survive?

[MrMongoolian]

They travel on rails and apparently the wind caught it.

[joecoool100]

Da da DA daddadad.......dadadadadDADADA­DAD.......Wahappen!

[lucy327rss]

@eliasshedd thanks for the answer!

[sablatnic]

@eliasshedd

Sounds sensible. Happened here too some years ago.