36 stuck for about 2.5 hours in Sentosa gondola due to mechanical fault

[Cao Pi]

36 stuck for about 2.5 hours in Sentosa gondola due to mechanical fault
Posted: 11 June 2010 2104 hrs
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SINGAPORE : Thirty-six people were stuck for about two-and-a-half hours in a gondola of Tiger Sky Tower on Sentosa's Imbiah Lookout due to a mechanical fault on Friday afternoon.

Operations at the Tower were suspended at about 12.15pm, with 36 guests - including three elderly persons and eight children - in the gondola 30 metres high.

An attractions host accompanying the ride maintained communications with personnel on the ground via a walkie-talkie throughout and provided updates to the guests.

Biscuits and bottles of water stored in the gondola in case of emergency were distributed to the guests, as engineers from Sky Tower Pte Ltd and Singapore Civil Defence Force personnel worked to lower the gondola.

Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team personnel were deployed to the gondola to assure the affected guests, while another team was deployed to assist the engineers in lowering the gondola to ground level.

All of the guests were safely brought down to the ground level by 2.40pm. No one was injured.

The cause of the fault is still under investigation, but the Sky Tower will re-open soon. - CNA/ms

 

[scoobyhoo]

will they be charged for this additional 2.5 hours time?

 

[borom]

Another addition to the long list of embarrasing screw ups in S'pore.
As usual, they will again do something uniquely Singapore by blaming Singaporeans for the cockup.

Good chance its FT's who are doing the shoddy maintenance while the highest paid ministers in the world continue to collect their salaries without being accountable.