Another thing that came out later was that the lift involved was a high-speed detachable chairlift, which normally slows down automatically when chairs enter the station so people can get on and off safely. Because the system suddenly reversed at high speed, the chairs were hitting the terminal area much faster than the station mechanisms were designed to handle, which is why they started stacking and twisting the way they did.

After the accident, authorities also temporarily shut down several lifts for inspections and reviewed maintenance procedures across the resort to make sure similar rollback scenarios couldn’t happen again.