Sunday, September 11, 2016

Bethesda TV tower dark for second night

The Crown Castle telecommunications tower in the 5200 block of River Road in Bethesda remained blacked-out last night. This was the second straight night the aircraft warning lights on the 850' tower failed to operate, and the fourth night in the last 21 months.

While most planes would not fly that low near the tower, we do have a high amount of helicopter traffic in Bethesda, primarily related to the military. A Notice to Airmen is supposed to be issued by the FAA during a tower light outage.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dyer, could you please explain your previous claim that these failures are somehow related to the color of the lights - white vs. red?

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Anonymous said...

Dyer's fanboy is b-u-s-y this morning!
Love is in the air haha

Anonymous said...

8:46am does Dyer's secret anonymous 8:20 & 8:36 admirer want to be Dyer or be with Dyer? He is obviously obsessed with Dyer and needs help.

Anonymous said...

@ 8:46/54 - How are things at the Fairmont Plaza these days?

Anonymous said...

Does dyer live there? I thought he lived in his moms basement in westbard?

Anonymous said...

Dyer's obsessed fan is refreshing Dyer's blog most of today...begging for attention from Dyer. How far will he go with his passion for Dyer? Dyer's stalker needs a psychological evaluation.

Anonymous said...

I'm 8:46AM. What is Fairmont Plaza? I haven't been south of Wildwood in months.

Robert Dyer said...

8:20: Simple - they had an unethical quid pro quo deal where the business can't answer questions from Robert Dyer in exchange for something not made public. Not what I'd call journalism, punk.

Robert Dyer said...

8:36: #BestOfWatergate EDITOR'S CHOICE

Anonymous said...

Dyer, do you ever plan to explain your theory that white lights are somehow more failure prone than red lights, and caused the entire structure to go dark?

Robert Dyer said...

7:01: I already did - the red lights never went out in forty years. The white flashers have now gone out multiple nights.