An engine hurtled through an elevator shaft, snapping the hoist cables.
Sascha and Rhyssa kept their eyes on the screen, which was showing the container, the hoist cables at one end of it still whipping hi backlash.
Elevator cabins have a safety mechanism that wedges securely onto the guide rails to arrest a fall if the hoist cables were to fail.
The other door gunner pushed the stretcher out the opposite door and lowered the hoist cable.
This used an arrangement of compensating hoist cables to automatically keep the hook, and load, level as the jib was luffed up and down.
Once the bucket had passed the vertical, the hoist cable would be released thus throwing the bucket.
The hero calmly knotted the slackened hoist cable about his hand and tore it from its mountings.
T. D'Alessandro conducted eight or nine inspections a day, examining hoist cables, counterweights and all the other parts essential to safety.
Bendarek and Fosdak had stayed below to attach the hoist cables to the tanks.