Skyliner extended outage

[SoarinSC]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...world-skyliner-strands-passengers/3890059002/
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/new...cle_044578e1-a50c-5b6b-9e89-2919ebc0d849.html
Obviously, this was a concern going in, but I'm actually surprised it's happened so soon. I hope everyone is ok and being taken care of by Disney. Disney really needs to look into upgrading their power grid or overhauling it. During my last visit, Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory was shut down during peak lunch due to an extended power outage.

 

[acarsme123]

Wasn't this shut down due to a couple of gondolas crashing into each other at one of the stations, and not some power outage?

 

[seashoreCM]

It is uncertain whether a power glitch contributed to the crash but the crash was the reason why the cable had to be stopped leaving riders stranded up in the air. The cable (rope) could not be put in motion again until the crashed gondolas were freed up.

Imagine you are on a very crowded escalator and at the end the person ahead stopped on the landing. (My fisrt job, pre-Magic Kingdom, at Macys's and a co worker said one of her pet peeves was people who did that) You hit him as the escalator brings you to the landing. The person behind you hits you when he arrives at the landing. This is comparable to the speeds and vehicle spacings at which the second and third Skyliner gondolas were moving when the first, stopped, gondola was hit. But the forces applied by the overhead propulsion systems for the gondolas were great enough to deform car bodies a little,, warp doors, and break windows. There is an account of some guests who were on one of the crashed gondolas and they did not mention injuries and did say they left promptly on their own to do other things in their plans.

Due to the crash, an investigation will be done before the entire system will resume operation.

More ominously, there are numerous other situations, not involving crashes, that can strand guests up in the air. A plain power failure is unlikely to cause a shutdown of this length because there are backup power systems.

 

[joelkfla]

Disney had originally put out a smokescreen saying it was a power outage. They backed off that the next morning, admitting that it was a malfunction.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

Ouch!
Luckily, nobody was hurt.

My heart goes out to the folks who were stuck, that'd be pretty miserable and scary to be stuck for hours.