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Anna · 19 апр 2006

All 69 Passengers Rescued From Stranded East River Tram

A four-minute trip on the Roosevelt Island Tramway yesterday turned into a harrowing ordeal that lasted hours as a series of power failures left about 70 people suspended hundreds of feet in the air, forcing a daring late-night rescue over the East River.

By 4:30 a.m. — nearly 12 hours after the trams first stalled — all the passengers were off the two trams, which had been moving in opposite directions, one towards Manhattan’s East Side and the other towards Roosevelt Island.
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Passengers described putting on harnesses and swinging across a two-and-a-half-foot gap between the tram and the gondola, which had crawled up along the length of the 3,100-foot stretch of cable with self-generated diesel power...
"I felt like I was a movie stuntman a little bit," said Dax Maier, 12, after he was rescued in the second group. "I just told myself, 'Don't look down.' "
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