[BC] Tower failure Corpus Christi, TX

[Mark Earle]

http://caller.com/news/2008/jan/17/navy-copter-crashes/

Some updated info. The station is back on Grande Cable (the minority 
cable service). I can also get TV-16 on my portable LCD TV with a whip, 
at about 12 air-miles from the tower inside a wood-frame building, 1st 
floor.


Mark Earle wrote:
> Bob Groome wrote:
>> Anywone know if there was anyone hurt in the tower that came down 
>> there? I hear it was caused by a Navy or Coast Gaurd copter.
>>
>>
>> Bob Groome
> The tower is at this time still standing.
> 
> A Navy mine-sweeper helicopter MAY have hit it - details are sketchy. 
> KRISTV.COM and caller.com  (Local TV-6 and paper) still do not say the 
> tower was struck. There is a local squadron of mine-sweepers, at CC 
> Naval Air Station; they were flying a training mission.
> 
> There was one survivor taken to a local hospital in critical condition. 
> The other 3 crew have not been identified pending notification of next 
> of kin.
> 
> The top beacon was found on the ground.
> 
> The TV-16 Analog is off-the-air.
> 
> FM 90.3 is on air, as is KKBA 92.7 which is also on the tower.
> 
> I have no way of verifying if the digital TV is on or not.
> 
> 90.3 and 92.7 are each on their own respective antennas.
> 
> According to the FCC databases:
> 
> KEDT-16 analog    961' AGL
> KEDT-23 digital 885' AGL
> KEDT-90.3     761' AGL
> KKBA 92.7    849' AGL
> 
> The accident happened in dense fog.


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