Sugarloaf Mountain

Six of the injured skiers when it jumped the rails in a lift Sugarloaf, Maine’s second highest summit, making it less than 30 meter drop (9.1 meters) on the ground.
The accident occurred at around 10:30 hours to raise the spillway East, according to a statement posted on the website of the resort today. All the wounded were treated and transported to local hospitals.
Sugarloaf identified in the Twitter feed three elevators, including those that came out for track as being closed for parts of the morning before the accident. Fell five permanent seats on the lift to the ground, and stranded skiers riding on the remaining seats in the elevator to stop. Left a similar incident in the Swiss resort of Grindelwald three years ago killed one person.
“It’s not unusual for a lift to start the day to keep the wind and later,” said Ethan Austin, a spokesman for the resort, in a telephone interview, referring to the temporary closure of the lift due to wind.
Austin said the maintenance department and the mountain ski patrol decide together when flying close. He said that there is a fixed wind speed, which closed the lifts. He said the decision depends on wind speed and direction, rain, ice and mechanical factors.
Said Austin, Sugarloaf is the incident to determine what is the reason for the study.
At the time of the accident, an estimated 220 people in the elevator, according to the statement. Austin said the mountain 4237 meters high in the middle of one of the busiest weeks of the season.
Mountain and 54 miles of trails, according to its Web site. The cranes can carry 21,810 passengers per hour. Raising the spillway is 1454 meters East, according to the site.