Strength on the hanging rope road to AI-Petri checked on journalists

In Crimea held a unique replacement of the rope on the aerial passenger ropeway «Miskhor - AI-Petri». Reliability and safety of the lift to check on journalists. As the correspondent of «New Region», a guarantee of a happy trip to the top of AI-Petri was made by the head of the Crimean territorial administration of the state Committee Oleg Maevsky, who together with the reporters stood up in a trailer to the upper station of the ropeway. According to him, the uniqueness of the replacement carrying a rope is that such an operation earlier in Ukraine has been conducted.
«But the difficulty was that the weight of the rope to 25 tons, and mount it was difficult weather conditions and mountain terrain,- told Mayevski. Such works were not conducted, and the most important thing was when mounting to avoid even the slightest damage to this design is that it serves the specified time and was safe.» Special rope made of alloy steel ordered in Austria. In Soviet times, these powerful cables 44 mm in diameter made Volgograd сталепроволочный rope plant, but now it does not produce similar products. Such ropes support the construction of the southern bridge in Kyiv and the Ostankino tower in Moscow
With all the works on installation of rope her team coped yourself. The development of the project and the replacement took about two months and 400 thousand UAH. In the 80-ies of the last century for the laying of the rope to the top of AI-Petri used heavy freight transportation. How did you raise the 25-ton rope to a height of 3 km journalists never knew the technology is now being patented and kept secret. «Correct calculations and valiant erection crew of 25 people,» - explains the General Director of the company «Стартинвест», which rents a rope-way, Hope Svanidze. She clarified that the former rope was in good condition, but the life went out, so I had to swap it for a new one. Strength and reliability of the received construction checked even by ultrasound.
Check journalists confirmed - haul passengers. To the disappointment of correspondents repeat summer PP with immediate stop of the ropeway failed. Now all units and aggregates are special sensors, and in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine are preparing new rules for safe operation of the cable cars taking into account the Crimean realities and peculiarities. Let's remind, that on August cable car «Miskhor - AI-Petri» triggered the emergency brake system. In the time of the lock in the two trailers at a height of 50 and 130 meters were 74 tourist and 2 employee of the service personnel.
Rescue operation on the descent of passengers lasted over 8 hours. Using climbing equipment rescuers transferred the victims through the emergency hatch at the bottom of the car on the ground. Medical assistance requested one woman's blood pressure. Other passengers took an emergency situation as a fascinating adventure and thanked the Crimean rescuers for their efficient work. Passenger cableway «Miskhor - AI-Petri» was put into operation in 1988 and is listed in the Guinness book of records for the two-kilometer span without intermediate supports. Planned repairs on the cable car is held annually. Before the beginning of the holiday season lift passed technical inspection.
/New Region 2/