The CBC Tower was a 371 metre high guyed mast for FM- and TV-transmission located atop Mont-Carmel near Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. The tower was built in 1972 and it served for several decades as Quebec's primary CBC transmission point and also served several radio stations. The metre, (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Shawinigan is a city in the Province of Quebec, Canada on the Saint-Maurice River. ...
On April 22, 2001 a lone pilot, Gilbert Paquette, flew his Cessna 150 into the tower and was killed. The fuselage of the plane remained wedged in the upper part of the tower, with the pilot's body inside. The crash also knocked the tower several meters off balance. It was decided that due to the structural damage and the need to recover the pilot's body the mast would have to be demolished. Several days later a controlled implosion brought the tower down, not damaging the several buildings nearby. It was the tallest structure ever explosively demolished. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Cessna 150 is a two-seat tricycle gear general aviation airplane, originally designed for flight training. ... Nuclear Weapon Implosion Implosion is a reverse explosion that concentrates matter and energy. ...
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