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Zendstation Smilde

Vaartweg
Midden-Drenthe Netherlands

Status:
built
Construction Dates
  Finished1959
Building Uses
 - communication
Structural Types
 - guyed mast
 - tower

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Antenna994 ftwikipedia
1959-2007 and from 2012 on
Antenna in 2007-2011965 ftwikipedia
Roof282 ft
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Description
Architect: Anton Auer

• On 14 August 1968 a US Air Force plane, an F-100 Super Sabre, from the Lakenheath Air Force Base in England was involved in an accident in heavy low clouds where the tip of a wing hit and broke one of the guy-wires of the tower, causing the upper section of the tower to bend. The airplane managed to land on base with only minimal damage (en.wikipedia, 2011).

• On July 16th 2011 fire broke out at 180 meters height causing the collapse of the antenna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLYdNnA3XUU&feature=player_embedded

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