Danes ob 10.30 po lokalnem času se je na smučišču Sugarleaf zgodila žičniška nesreča. S kolesnih baterij se je snela vrv, poškodovanih je 6 ljudi. Natančnega vzroka še ne vedo, se je pa žičnica stalno ustavljala, pihal naj bi tudi veter v sunkih.
Tu spodaj je nekaj besedila s strani boston.com in nydailynews.com

Approximately 220 passengers were on the lift at the time of the accident. Using ropes and harnesses, the mountain's ski patrol began evacuating those that remained stranded on the broken-down lift - but not before several of those stranded could post photos on social media sites and call news organizations to deliver first-person accounts of the incident.

"The chairlift was going slow and the winds started picking up," Robb Atkinson, a CNN employee who was trapped on the lift told the network. "It was stopping and starting, stopping and starting. One of the times where it started again, all of a sudden there was a bump and we could feel a jerk. And we heard screams from skiers down below yelling 'the chairs are off the lift!'"

Žičnica naj bi vozila le še to sezono, saj naj bi jo drugo leto zamenjala nova naprava (očitno jo bo res:))... Nisem ziher, za katero napravo gre, pomoje, da je kakšna Poma ali Tatra Poma... sedeži so podobni. Je bilo pa v času nesreče na napravi 220 ljudi, tako da mora biti zadeva zelo dolga!

Zgleda pa stara na slikah. Mogoče pa so mislili da je blo na obeh skupaj 220 ljudi, ker imata verjetno skupne stebre in jo jemljejo kot eno napravo. Samo zgledajo pa ful skupaj sedeži, recimo da je umes 8 m, pol je dolga 880 m, samo ponavadi je razdalja med sedeži najmanj 15 m, torej bi bila dolžina 1650 m, kr dosti za dvosedežnico, skoraj cela Berjanca, torej se voziš mrzlih 11 minut.

Po mojem pa to ni poma, ampak muller ali yan lifts.

Če je Yan, se ne čudim... bi bilo pa fino ugotovit za katero napravo dejansko gre...

Nekako se mi ne zdi tole Yan, čeprav so zdajle moji sklepi daleč od zanesljivih...

Sedeži me nekoliko sicer spominjajo na Leitner, vendar je to skorajda nemogoče...

Nekdo je pod novicami na nekem ameriškem spletnem portalu zapisal tole:

As a former employer of mine used to say "Big dumb chairlift will kill you if you dont pay attention to it." If you have ever been an operator of one of these machines you know how dangerous they can be. Despite their simplicity, they are hard to drive, especially in the wind. It takes nerves to opperate in gusty winds, a panicky operator who hits the Emergency Stop at the wrong time in a wind gust can derail it. (Think about inducing a wave in the cable at the wrong moment) For all we know they may have been getting ready to call "last chair" for wind. What is unfortunate is the fail safes appear to have failed. If you've ridden a lift you may have noticed that every set of wheels (sheaves) that hold the cable have a space for the cable to catch if it does derail. Not having skied at the "loaf" I cant say about this one in question but I have been around these things for over 30 years and have yet to see one without these. Truly an unfortunate accident but go easy on the operators/mgmt, unless they were found negligent, I doubt it though.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sugarloaf-accident-wind-2010-12#ixzz1AlTr4ndp


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Zelo lepo je opisano kaj je bilo. Zaradi vetra se je vrv nevarno približala robu kolesni baterij, zato so ustavili sedežnico. Nato so hoteli s počasno vožnjo na varno spraviti potnike, takrat pa se je zgodilo najhujše, vrv je iztirila...

Gre za 35 let staro sedežnico firme Borvig SKI - zdaj jih je kupil DM, tko, da zdaj vemo za katerega proizvajalca gre...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgYmX-nwD-M

Še tole sem našel..