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[_litz]

Haven't seen this posted, so figured I'd start a thread on it ...

Thunderstruck had a cross-arm failure over the weekend (around 9am on 2/20), resulting in the cross-arm completely separating from the tower and falling to the ground.

2 people ended up in the hospital (non-critical injuries) of the 25 people ejected from chairs in the resulting slack bounce ... luckily for all involved heights were very low, as most fell < 30 feet onto relatively soft snow.

The pictures are harrowing to see, this was obviously a pretty major structural failure.





http://www.dcski.com/articles/1485

http://www.reuters.c...i-idUSKCN0VT0X2

[RibStaThiok]

Geeze.. I wonder how this happened..

[julestheshiba]

_litz, on 22 February 2016 - 03:14 PM, said:

Haven't seen this posted, so figured I'd start a thread on it ...

Thunderstruck had a cross-arm failure over the weekend (around 9am on 2/20), resulting in the cross-arm completely separating from the tower and falling to the ground.

2 people ended up in the hospital (non-critical injuries) of the 25 people ejected from chairs in the resulting slack bounce ... luckily for all involved heights were very low, as most fell < 30 feet onto relatively soft snow.

The pictures are harrowing to see, this was obviously a pretty major structural failure.





http://www.dcski.com/articles/1485

http://www.reuters.c...i-idUSKCN0VT0X2

The tower looks rusty

[julestheshiba]

I also doubt it is a Borvig problem

[_litz]

Ran across this video, from some people evacuated off the lift ...

At the end of the video, they ski past the fallen crossarm (looks like their video might have been where the stills above came from)

https://www.youtube....h?v=E6JVv220Ibc