Modern Mysteries

Horror as Chicago elevator plunges 80 floors

By T.K. Randall
November 19, 2018 ·  27 comments

The building has a total of 100 floors. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Nicolas G. Mertens The accident happened at the John Hancock Center in Chicago on Friday when a hoist rope broke while the elevator was in use, causing it to plunge over 80 floors with people still trapped inside.

The other hoist ropes ultimately managed to bring it to a halt a mere 11 floors from the bottom.

"At the beginning I believed we were going to die," said one of the passengers, Jaime Montemayor."We were going down and then I felt that we were falling down and then I heard a noise - clack clack clack clack clack clack."

Firefighters took three hours to cut a hole through the wall of the elevator to rescue those inside.

Although shaken by their ordeal, fortunately none of the passengers were injured.

Luckily, other cables still attached kept the elevator from crashing to the bottom floor https://t.co/ppwbz3sCuH

— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) November 19, 2018

Source: Independent | Comments (27)

Tags: Elevator, Chicago