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Omega Tower

Trelew CH Argentina

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1973
  Finished1976
  Destroyed1998
Building Uses
 - communication
Structural Types
 - guyed mast

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Antenna1201 ft
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Description
• The tallest steel structure ever to be demolished with explosives, demolished at exactly 5:40 pm, June 23, 1998.

• The antenna and accessories weighed 310 tons and sat on a ceramic base insulator that supported a total of 1,750,000 lbs., including both the mast weight and downward guy forces.


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