Crane dangles from NYC high-rise, clearing streets

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Like Monday’s accident, one of the 2008 crane collapses also centered on the rig’s long, mobile arm, known as a boom. In the May 2008 accident, the boom broke off a roughly 200-foot-tall rig, crashed into a nearby building and plummeted to the ground.

Prosecutors blamed that collapse on what they called a penny-pinching repair to a crucial component that lets the boom swivel. Lawyers for that crane’s owner, who ultimately was acquitted of manslaughter charges, said the operator made a mistake that tipped the boom over backward and snapped it.

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Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report.

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