Cable Car Genting Accident
6 if you wish to disembark at chin swee station please keep your ticket s or qr code s in order to continue your journey to the top or leaving the resort from awana station.
Cable car genting accident. 5 during the maintenance closure of awana skyway the cable car services will begin at the genting skyway station a 15 minutes drive away from awana station. The cable car trip duration from awana skyway up to genting highlands takes around 10 minutes if the journey is smooth. The pahang civil defence fore apm today denied there was a mishap involving a snapped cable of the genting skyway cable car which went viral on facebook.
This genting highland cable car takes you through the overarching mountains to the peak of titiwangsa mountain range at about 1 800 m elevation about 55km north east of kuala lumpur. Arrive in genting highlands. Genting highlands fire and rescue department 07 apr 2018 09 34am updated.
The accident occurred as both vehicles were descending from the popular genting highlands casino and resort area. Genting cable car accident. This was also the worst disaster that singapore had experienced since the spyros accident in 1978.
Passengers can take along one aircraft cabin size bag per passenger on the gondola. According to our source the incident was not reported in the newspaper as its may affect the coming of visitors to genting highlands. Otherwise a surcharge of rm20 will be imposed for bringing oversized baggage into the cable car per passenger.
You will arrive in skyavenue station which is connected to skyavenue shopping mall. Oversized baggage can be stored at the baggage storage service located at level 2 of the awana skyway building for rm5 per baggage for 24 hours. Many famous brand and shops is going to open soon.
This genting highlands skyway cable car is a is one of the longest and fastest gondola lifts in southeast asia. On 29 january 1983 seven people died when the sentosa cable cars they were aboard plunged into the sea after the derrick of an oil drilling vessel eniwetok struck the cableway when it was unberthing from the wharf nearby. Private genting highland tour with cable car ride batu caves 1 review our driver will get you from your hotel lobby in kuala lumpur city and head to genting highlands br br appreciate grand drive going through the slopes of malaysia and see neighborhood towns in transit br br take a ride on the genting skyway southeast asia s snappiest and longest connection vehicle.