It is a miracle that no one was hurt. Almost anything falling from that height is going pretty fast by the time it reaches the ground.
Charles Durning come along with it?
the work crew installing the glass were all DEI hires
Millennium Tower is the one that is sinking , leaning, etc.
Nary a mention by CBS .
I remember when the Hancock Tower in Boston had windows falling out all the time. The facade was dotted with lots of plywood sheets. They eventually solved that problem, but IIRC it took some time.
“A building inspector was dispatched to 350 Mission Street to evaluate the situation issued a violation notice which required the opening where the glass was to be secured and the glass to be replaced as soon as possible ...”
Thank goodness they arrived on the scene! How would anyone know to secure the opening and fix the glass as soon as possible? Government heroes I say.
Another DEI report
Glass Pane Falls From Top of San Francisco Skyscraper Onto Street
I remember in college wondering why there was plywood over a window in the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Then the movie Sharkey’s Machine, starring Burt Reynolds, came out. See the 30s ad and you won’t wonder any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FCHefQeuSM
About 15 years ago, there was a big windstorm that came through during the SEC tournament (so mid- to late-February) that took out a bunch of high rise glass in downtown ATL. My son and friends from out of town were down there for it, but they weren’t hurt. A few people were.
How did the glass cross Putin to get tossed to the street?
I read a news article once of a high rise construction worker carrying a sheet of plywood on some high floor 50th-60th? when a gust of wind blew him off the building and then blew him and the sheet of plywood back into the building a floor or two below.
I wonder if that shook him up a little.
Amazing luck that no one was injured.
This happens in Houston, during hurricanes. The good news, is that not too many people are on the streets of downtown Houston, during a hurricane.
I think those panes weigh about 600 pounds.
Judge on the reduced sentence: It panes me.
The impact was probably cushioned by piles of soft, warm scat on the sidewalk below.
Now we know who hired the Boeing QA guy.
My dad owned a commercial glazing company. A good friend of his was installing glass on the Renaissance Center in Detroit. He told me they spent all day wrestling a sheet of glass to the 70th floor. As he was installing it he shattered the glass. It was tempered safety glass so it broke into a million pieces. He watched a cloud of glass fall 600 feet to earth.