A giant LED screen that crashed onto two dancers performing at boy band Mirror’s concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum last month, was declared to authorities to weigh less than half of its actual 500kg, the Post has learned. A government source revealed the details on Thursday (Aug 25), a day after a task force set up to investigate the...
A giant LED screen that crashed onto two dancers performing at boy band Mirror’s concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum last month, was declared to authorities to weigh less than half of its actual 500kg, the Post has learned.
The source also said Hip Hing Loong Stage Engineering Company had bought the metal wires from a supplier in mainland China through another firm. Louis Szeto Ka-sing, a task force member and representative of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, said the six screens used at the concert separately weighed between 500kg to 550kg , but he was informed that organisers had told the Leisure and Cultural Services Department that they weighed 500lbs , instead of kilograms.
“This is the document I asked for on day one of the investigation, and still in vain,” Szeto said on another programme. Szeto also revealed that the substandard cord that held the screen could only withstand 1,100kg, 300kg less than commercially available wire ropes of the same structure.
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