jimnyc
11-18-2018, 08:09 AM
Dropping from 95th floor down to the 11th? Yeah, like that wouldn't scare me until the aforementioned elliptical buggers end up in my throat! Oy! That must be on scary 'ol experience. And then it still took them nearly 3 hours to get them out of there?
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Hancock Elevator Dropped From 95th To 11th Floor, Passenger Says
CHICAGO (CBS)—It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago’s fourth-tallest building early Friday.
A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction while guests who had just left the Signature Room on the 95th floor rode down toward the lobby. The elevator and two others have since been closed to the public while repairs are made and investigators figure out what happened.
What kept the elevator from tumbling down to the bottom of the building? Several hoist ropes hold up an elevator car, so if one fails, the others are able to carry the weight.
Visiting from Mexico, Jaime Montemayor didn’t expect his trip to Chicago to include getting stuck in an elevator.
“At the beginning I believed we were going to die,” Montemayor said. “We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise–clack clack clack clack clack clack.”
His wife, Mana Castillo, said the elevator was moving fast and suddenly a material that looked like dust started filtrating into the elevator.
She said they found out later that they had careened from the 95th floor down to the 11th floor.
None of the people in the elevator were hospitalized.
Some of the elevator passengers said security officers staffed at the Hancock didn’t immediately call firefighters.
Someone who answered the phone at the Hancock security office Friday declined to comment and hung up the phone.
Rest - https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/11/16/hancock-elevator-fail/
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Hancock Elevator Dropped From 95th To 11th Floor, Passenger Says
CHICAGO (CBS)—It took nearly three hours to rescue six people stuck in an elevator in Chicago’s fourth-tallest building early Friday.
A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction while guests who had just left the Signature Room on the 95th floor rode down toward the lobby. The elevator and two others have since been closed to the public while repairs are made and investigators figure out what happened.
What kept the elevator from tumbling down to the bottom of the building? Several hoist ropes hold up an elevator car, so if one fails, the others are able to carry the weight.
Visiting from Mexico, Jaime Montemayor didn’t expect his trip to Chicago to include getting stuck in an elevator.
“At the beginning I believed we were going to die,” Montemayor said. “We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise–clack clack clack clack clack clack.”
His wife, Mana Castillo, said the elevator was moving fast and suddenly a material that looked like dust started filtrating into the elevator.
She said they found out later that they had careened from the 95th floor down to the 11th floor.
None of the people in the elevator were hospitalized.
Some of the elevator passengers said security officers staffed at the Hancock didn’t immediately call firefighters.
Someone who answered the phone at the Hancock security office Friday declined to comment and hung up the phone.
Rest - https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/11/16/hancock-elevator-fail/