On 27/05/2021 16:46, GB wrote:
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.Â* 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?

Let them climb out the hatch on the roof and be collected by man
attached to a winch on the helicopter - air sea rescue style.


--
Cheers,

John.

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