On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:18:04 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

And hope that an Airforce jet doesn't clip one of the guy wires.
It's happened at least once. A small UHF TV station on the east coast
of Florida lost the top of their tower that way and it 'went dark',
rather than rebuild. That was about 20 years ago.

That raises a lot of questions: What was the Air Force Jet doing
hugging the deck that tight (and not on a Military Base) without
knowing what was there first? And was the tower tall enough and/or
in an approach path to where it was required to have obstruction
lights? And did it have them installed and operational?

Unless there was negligence on the part of the Tower Owner, the Air
Force owes them a new tower. "You break it, you bought it." It's on
the charts...

-- Bruce --