As Disney investigates a Disney Skyliner incident that left guests stranded in the air for over three hours, we have a closer look at the damage incurred one of the gondola cabins involved in the incident. As you can see in the photos below, Disney Skyliner gondola cabin 108 has been taken off of the main line as Disney investigates the root cause of the impact that caused the line to shut down for hours.
As we saw in a video posted on social media, gondola cabin 108 appeared to show broken glass on the ground under the gondola cabin last night.
UPDATE: 10/6 2pm – After receiving many comments that said the gondola cabins were occupied, we reached out to Disney and a spokesperson maintained that the both the blue gondola cabin, and yellow gondola cabin that impacted it were empty – containing no guests at the time of the incident. Original story continues below.
According to Disney, an “empty car was delayed, a second empty car bumped it. No Guests were involved”. It appears that it was more than a simple bump though. As you can see in our photos below, the broken glass seen in the social media post is, in fact, from Disney Skyliner gondola cabin 108. It looks like cabin 108 was impacted by the yellow gondola cabin behind it, and one of the ventilation windows shattered, leading to the broken glass seen in the video above.
Here’s a look at a blue Disney Skyliner gondola cabin with both ventilation windows intact.
There is no known reopening date or time for the Disney Skyliner gondola system. Disney said that “one of the three Disney Skyliner routes experienced an unexpected downtime Saturday evening. As a result, the Skyliner will be closed while we look into the details surrounding this downtime. We apologize for this situation, and we are working with each guest individually regarding impacts to their visit with us”.
For continuing coverage of the Disney Skyliner gondola system and much more from around the Disney Parks, keep checking back with us here at BlogMickey.com.
Except the “empty” comment is a lie. All the gondolas involved had people in them, including the blue one.
We’ve seen the same reports and reached out to Disney to see if they want to provide an updated statement. We’ll update this post with that information as it becomes available
Disney is doing themselves NO favor by denying that there were occupants in the gondolas directly involved in the accident. The proper PR response would be “We cannot say more at this time.” A better PR response would be “There were a few people onboard, we have seen to them, no injuries have been reported. Be assured that we are keeping the system down while we work to determine the cause of the accident and to ensure this problem never occurs again.”
Lol are you a PR expert haha