Sunday, July 12, 2009

Monorail Accident

Hey Everyone!!

So i know this is a little late in posting, but a week ago there was a fatal monorail accident in Disneyworld at the Trans Ticket Centre. There was a collison between monorail pink and monorail purple. The accident occured at approximatly 2:00am on July 5th, 2009. There has been several articles about it in the paper, online and on the news. It's been the talk of Disneyworld for a week now, and they're slowly pulling pieces of the puzzle and putting them all in place. I believe it was released that the pink train was going offline, which means taking it off the main tracks for the night but there was a technical malfunction and it didn't work..it kept going on the same one, where monorail purple was. (p.s.. could have the colors mixed up) The cast member driving the purple monorail who i think now is on a suspension leave with pay should have been looking out of his mirrors and would have noticed it didn't work and shut the entire system down, but didn't. Normally the monorials can only go a certain distance between each other and if they get too close it will shit down or slow down or something.. but the pilot had to override it to switch it off the tracks.. so that was also a problem. Also, the managers who were supposed to be in the control room and could have prevented this terrible accident were allegedly at Denny's while the accident happened.
So all the managers are on suspensions and Austin Wuennberg (sp?) the driver died. He was the only person in the front cabin, and there were six guests aboard the monorail at the time. The driver of monorail pink was fine, but taken to hospital just in case.
An article and video right here in more detail.
Opps haha i gotta jet.. apparently i'm going to EPCOT.
Chat more later
xox
Sam

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