If you look carefully, the ski lift is still standing & the cable still intact. From the pictures & description it looks like the cable detached from the sheave wheel supports on one tower or they collapsed resulting in violent movement of the cable & attached chairs.
Or the shaft on which the sheave was attached to broke. Seeing the sheave lying in the snow instead of being at the top of the tower is definitely a good place to start looking for the smoking gun IMO. But for the title of the video to suggest a "collapse" is highly misleading. I took a screenshot of the thumbnail that comes with the video and you can actually see the stub of the shaft that held the sheave. Very poor design in regards to being "failsafe". The horizontal arm that held the sheave has it so the sheave is "under slung" meaning that any failure in the retaining mechanism results in the sheave instantly falling off due to gravity. If the manufacturer had had the mounting shaft on top of the horizontal arm for the sheave then any mechanical failure should still leave the sheave on top of the tower especially if they were to build in a safety retaining system.
If you look carefully, the ski lift is still standing & the cable still intact. From the pictures & description it looks like the cable detached from the sheave wheel supports on one tower or they collapsed resulting in violent movement of the cable & attached chairs.
Or the shaft on which the sheave was attached to broke. Seeing the sheave lying in the snow instead of being at the top of the tower is definitely a good place to start looking for the smoking gun IMO. But for the title of the video to suggest a "collapse" is highly misleading.
I took a screenshot of the thumbnail that comes with the video and you can actually see the stub of the shaft that held the sheave. Very poor design in regards to being "failsafe".
The horizontal arm that held the sheave has it so the sheave is "under slung" meaning that any failure in the retaining mechanism results in the sheave instantly falling off due to gravity. If the manufacturer had had the mounting shaft on top of the horizontal arm for the sheave then any mechanical failure should still leave the sheave on top of the tower especially if they were to build in a safety retaining system.
Your thumbnail is so far from the truth EURONEWS.
You should be ashamed.
Typical sensational clickbait 🤬
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This seems to happen every winter in Western Europe now.
Well, that's news to all of us in Western Europe. Care to give any details?
I'm not surprised. Engineering quality in that land is abysmal