Golden Eagle Express Gondola Crash – Kicking Horse, BC

[Sym P. le]

The only reason this incident didn't have a more drastic outcome is because the failure occurred just coming out of the lift station. The lift runs 3.4 km gaining 4,133 ft of elevation. It's a 12 minute ride.

 

[Tomfh]

Fatigue at the bend presumably. Looks like a bit of a kink associated with the bending operation too, which wouldn't help.

 

[SWComposites]

Right at the site of max tensile stress. Hmmm……

 

[IRstuff]

great, I'm just about to go skiing

 

[epoxybot]

Maybe they should design these to have an internal wire cable restraint, as a redundancy.