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It's a small tower, but I'd think it'd probably still weighs a couple thousand pounds. I could be way off there and it's smaller than it looks in the CNN photo,
by Bluestrike2 3y ago
It's a small tower, but I'd think it'd probably still weighs a couple thousand pounds. I could be way off there and it's smaller than it looks in the CNN photo, but you're likely looking at using a construction helicopter and needing experienced people capable of rigging the tower and actually lifting it without killing everybody.
My guess is that they just dropped it and chopped it up. A helicopter seems ridiculously over-the-top and cartoonish for a couple hundred bucks in scrap metal value you'd gain from the theft. You'd waste more than that in just fuel for the helicopter.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoPlus it would have to be a $100M military super stealth chopper to do a theft in the night, and would probably also have to be operated by that same military to force all the air traffic infrastructure to look the other way and see nothing. I think we have our answer. Obviously that station was spreading the wrong ideas to the public, and now they are not.
- fbdab103 3y agoWhy would it have to be stealthy? Even if they did it in broad daylight, announcing their presence with a loudspeaker, "We are taking this tower." Would I, a random bystander care? For all I know, they were contracted by the owner. Definitively someone else's problem.
- alright2565 3y agoyou can look up historical data about what aircraft were where at what time.
- diggan 3y agoAs long as the ADS-B transponder is on, yeah. I'm guessing if you're about to do a short flight to hijack a radio tower, you might want to turn that off.