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I want to say this was the plot of an episode of the Twilight Zone that played in the 1980's. The 'button' was offered to an impoverished couple, in which the man wouldn't push the button, and was justifying it by stating the person that might die might be an innocent person. The wife disagreed. She hit the button. The man who offered the button returned to take the device back, in which it was given to another family to make the same decision. The twist is that the people who pushed the button were the people to die, whilst the person who decided not to push the button, got the money, I want to say in the form of an insurance settlement. Kinda like that story about the monkey paw or some other some such.
For anyone wondering what is happening this is a lift rollback meaning the brakes have failed and the lift is spinning freely with gravity pulling the chairs back to the base causing this situation. Like many other comments have said the people involved did a great job managing the situation and preventing a much worse scenario. Also lift rollbacks like this are super unlikely to occur.
If it has its own term to describe it "lift rollback" than it must not be that uncommon. And why no emergency stop mechanism? Like an industrial size clamp that would grab the line. This just feels like a poorly designed lift if something like this is known to happen yet nobody has figured a way to stop it once it starts.
@@2ndTooth I am assuming there must have been some sort of emergency stop mechanism because it did eventually stop when there was still a lot of weight on the downward-heading cable. If there were none it probably wouldn't have stopped until all, or nearly all, the weight was off that side.
@@bigt2731you might not expect an answer like mine, but I guess the Americans would be discouraged from helping each other because they'd be scared to death that any of the skiers falling incorrectly could sue the helping person to destroy their life.
@@bigt2731What do you mean everybody I know runs from everything. I don't know what planet you're from but here everybody runs like a bunch of pussies. So yes it was inspiring to actually see a bunch of pussies work together
During my college years, I spent time working as a lift operator. We trained extensively for roll back accidents like this. Every morning we had to manually pull the emergency brake on each lift to make sure it worked. If it didn’t work, the chair was deemed inoperable. We also tested the emergency back up generator on each chair every morning before opening. Because generator and manual brake checking is done every morning on every lift everywhere I have ever heard of, how did this happen? This was awful to watch. May this never happen again!
Oh my wordddd. That was horrifying to watch...I can't imagine seeing this or hearing this in person. I am so happy nobody was critically injured. Beautiful job that everybody did helping others! Blessings from America.
and then a guy came in with a machine gun and shot up the place, so now I live in a hole--so then there was flooding and an earthquake and volcanic magma; so I just killed myself.
How that skier at 1:17 didn't get killed, or even seriously hurt, is absolutely astounding! It looks like he/she gets crushed up in the top of the tower and tangle of chairs. Damn!
It would be impossible to grip the metal bars strongly enough with ski gloves in order to prevent the multiple sideways g-force at the bottom from throwing you off the chair. Still safer to jump under your own control, though.
I saw EXACTLY what you are talking about and wondered that, too!! That part was TRULY horrific and you can hear it in the poor guy's voice when it happens!
@@drinnerd8532 Yeah, you can hear someone let out a cry right when it happens, probably whoever was taking the video. I'm sure the skier was thrown clear since it says nobody was badly injured, but at the moment we can't see him anymore it looks like he would be crushed in all those tangled-up chairs. Hard to watch even though I know he was OK.
You wont believe it but i was there, I refused to go skiing that day and stayed for hot chocolate, I'm from georgia and this was a very traumatic moment, My family is all safe though, what a miracle I was lazy...
That's a TESLA ski lift prototype. This was the beta test and they found it ran as intended with no bugs. Will be put into production by end of winter.
I’m no engineer but I worked at a ski resort for many years and did all sorts maintenance on these macinces under the supervision of an engineer and his team. Guaranteed there had been no PM or required inspections on this machine. The emergency brake and anti-rollback obviously was nonexistent.. Gravity broought the haul rope ( cable) downward. All simple physics at that point. Totally avoidable. This was a horrific situation..
1:15 omg the way that person was being dragged after being stuck by the collar or neck area of the ski suit and then wildly whipped around and thrown 😮
This same thing happened on "The Hall of Presidents" just a few years ago. It was so out-of-control that Grover Cleveland was re-elected and we were all asked to leave the park.
That's just the lift to the expert trail. Wait until you see the trail. It's just a cliff. This could be a scene in Final Destiny 2024. They survived the plane crash and decided to celebrate by going on a ski trip together. Coming to a theater near you.
This is pure negligence on th part of either th lift operators or th console engineers or both. Insane, that they did not hav it turned off within 10---15 sec after the 1st couple chairs dumped/flung skiers. In fact, a 5 to 6 sec pause is about all u r allowed, at areas I've worked at (i wz ski patrol, not lift op, but we trained w them)
Based off my own reaction and other peoples comments, my first reaction was that this looked comical…. But in reality, this is horrific and would have been terrifying to experience. Prayers to everyone involved. I hope everyone is ok
If you watched the video, it said only a few injuries, nothing too bad. Also it's not horrific and terrifying, using those words for a situation like this, makes those words lose their meaning. Falling off a cruise ship, seeing it sailing away from you to never be seen again is horrific and terrifying. Having to jump from a ski lift into snow at medium speed is not.
As a lift operator, first thing you would press is the emergency stop it takes so fing long for them to stop it It literally takes one second to push the emergency button
My heart was in my throat the whole time watching this. I could only imagine being there and being horrified. But yet I’m reading comments were people were cracking up laughing. I just don’t get it.
i'm a driver instructor. When i show a compilation of car crashes to a new class, you'd think your in a comedy club. I think i can understand why they laugh..but.. a little more maturity and they probably wouldn't.
They're not registering what they're seeing. Like the reply above me thinking people are just being flung off. Jumping or being flung off is the best result. Catching something as you jump is a broken leg. Not getting clear of the next chair or still being on the chair when it gets to the pile of detached ones is a life and death situation.
it is. and we NOT laughing at the fact that people were injured, it's the state of seeing humans fly...already knowing no one was killed. that group of two or three that was flung from the seat was indeed hilarious. they looked like rag dolls. and everyone watching this page knows this shit is funny. and the ones who think it is the most funny are the ones saying how lovely it was to see everyone working together etc....covering up such thoughts with such comments.
Gravity and the lose of brake Friction is the cause of this terrible incident, it's not an accident, poor maintenance. So please nobody with badly injured. In times of disaster its really good to see people work together.
one would assume that you would have a safety switch to turn this off in case of an emergency but I guess they didn't want one out in the public, since people can't be trusted, and you'd have kids trying to push it.
They do, there are giant emergency buttons that attendants can hit to instantly stop the lifts. Perhaps it failed, or this is a really crappy ski lift but its been standard on every lift I've ever ridden in the last 30 years to have a giant emergency stop button at both ends.
Not at all. They are still in operation. They just had to fire the operator that made a mistake, and make new safety guidelines for their employees to follow.
@@renaissanceman3903 this was years ago, back in 2018 I believe. This ski hill is still open today, tomorrow and the foreseeable future. The situation wasn't due to a mechanical failure, or horrible maintenance, it was a matter of operator error. That operator got all of the backlash for this. The ski hill, just had to implement better workplace procedures. Mostly around not forgetting to turn on the backup generator, that was already in place so something like this shouldn't happen in the first place. When you can break down a incident like this to human error, there usually isn't much repercussions for the company. After all, shit flows downhill, as the saying goes.
The Russian coming from the man commentating the main vid really elevated this clip to a 10/10 for me lol. Those passionate "Blyats" were really hittin.
i went skiing when i was young. waiting for the ski lift to come up to me, a friend had his ski pole on my ski and I couldn't move, even while yelling move your pole! so, the lift came, hit me, sent me flying, and they had to stop the lift to many people yelling BOOO! at me. oh well. this looked much worse than what happened to me.
@@peacefulscrimp5183you grow your own food too? How about deodorant and toothpaste? You test your own water supply? Stop it now. You have to live life buddy. Ha.
@@Am0ment0fB that is hilarious. I put in my own well and I do test my own water 😂🤣😂🤣 I sometimes wonder what you A.I. things think people did half a century ago. Also I do grow my own food 👌
Its terrifying that there are two, presumable unconscious people lying on the ground at 0:32 but it is not until 1:57 that you can see loads of people rushing over to help them thankfully.
You want the only moron who managed to fall out of the chair on your team? (Yes, kids can be morons if they do something stupid that no other kids do.)
So the clutch of the ski lift malfunctioned resulting in the engine uncomfortably accelerating, qlso at that rpm engine will stop responding to kill switch etc. thats why it kept going for so long the general breaker had to be shut down and even then the clutch was gone so it had to slow down naturally. The ski lift was from like 1979. they replaced the engine after this. Qnd no one was seriously hurt.
It's like a hellish carnival ride. Staying on only to get flung off at the end or smashed into a pile of chairs would be way scarier than dropping straight down...
As a former chairlift operator on Mt. Hood Meadows we were told to hit the chair brake as soon as the chair stopped to prevent rollback. Boy did they have a lot of faith in 18 year olds back then. I am sure that the new lifts have redundant and automatic braking systems. I hope!
