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.
.......that gets spotty maintenance checks after it gets set up here.....
if true, that is a real gamble with your customers lives. one would think that maintence records would be reviewed by the gov't before the hill is reopened.
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Four injured in chairlift accident
