Yeosu offshore cable car with 60 people on board stops in the air for 30 minutes = South Korea

An accident occurred in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, when a cable car stopped mid-operation and 60 passengers were trapped in the air for 30 minutes.
According to Yeosu City, a report was received on the 22nd at around 11:16 a.m. that the Yeosu Maritime Cable Car in Dolsan-eup, Yeosu City, had stopped working.
The company put the cable car into emergency mode and moved the passenger cabins to the station.
It is understood that there were a total of over 40 cable car cabins in operation at the time, with 60 passengers on board.
. It took 30 minutes for passengers to disembark at the station. The accident occurred when a part of the machine that pulls the cable car broke. Automatically removes the cable cover after a part breaks.
was confirmed to have stopped. The company plans to replace the damaged parts and conduct a test run. Passengers were informed that they had been reimbursed for the cost of the cable car ride.
The city plans to confirm with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (equivalent to Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) whether safety inspections have been carried out on cable cars in general. The safety inspection was carried out in December last year.
However, it was reported that no problems were found at the time. This is the first time in five years that the Yeosu Maritime Cable Car has stopped operating, and it has stopped operating twice in the past due to lightning strikes in March and July 2019.
There have been times when it has stopped.