This happened at Crystal Mountain. I was talking with a guy a couple of weeks ago in Kelowna who works as a lift operator at Big White, and he was telling me about how all the equipment they get is second-hand stuff from Europe that gets spotty maintenance checks after it gets set up here. Kind of unnerving.
I am not sure if this was a purely an equipment failure, or due to running the equipment under in adverse conditions.
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Four people have been taken to hospital after an accident involving a chair lift at Crystal Mountain in West Kelowna.
A cable from the chairlift reportedly came loose from the lift, sending one chair into a tower and crashing to the ground.
The chair was apparently 25 feet in the air when it fell.
Four people were injured in the incident, two critical.
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