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Willow-Island, NE

Apr 27, 2008

'It was gone': String of problems led to 51 deaths at Willow Island

“There were redundant features here that, if they had corrected them, this wouldn't have happened”

At about 10 a.m. on April 27, 1978, workers began raising the day's second bucket of concrete up 166 feet to Lift 29. via Charleston Gazette

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