On 26/05/2021 22:04, Roger Hayter wrote:

We weren't there; the technicians may have disabled the safety brake so the
*empty* car could have been moved to a safe parking position. It may have
been a purely management decision to use it for passengers.


Suppose that the emergency brake applied itself halfway through the run,
with a cabin load of passengers 30 metres up in the air.

Do you evacuate them all by rope and then walk/carry them down to the
bottom of the hill?

Or do you disable the brake and run the whole car load down to the bottom?

Neither option is safe, as the evacuation could easily result in
casualties. Is it obviously safer to do the evacuation, then move the
empty car?