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CBC Tower

Shawinigan QC Canada

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Finished1972
  Destroyed2001
Building Uses
 - communication
Structural Types
 - guyed mast

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Description
In April 2001 a pilot crashed his single engine plane into the top of the mast, the mast had to be demolished and became the tallest structure to be felled by explosive demolition.

Replaced by a new mast, https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=153812.

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