Zendstation Smilde

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Zendstation Smilde is a tall, free-standing structure, similar to the Gerbrandy Tower and was built for directional radio services and TV and FM-transmissions in 1959 in the Netherlands. Its base is an 80 metre high reinforced concrete tower, on which a guyed mast is mounted. At construction the height of the tower of Zendstation Smilde was 270 metres with this mast. A section was added later so its total height is now 303.5 m (996 ft).

On the 14 August 1968 a US Air Force plane, a F-4 Phantom II, from the military base Soesterberg in The Netherlands was involved in an accident in heavy fog where the tip of a wing hit one of the guy-wires of the tower and snapped it, causing the upper section of the tower to bend. The airplane managed to land on base with only minimal damage.

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