About 70 people spent a harrowing half hour in mid-air after fuses blew and cut power to the motor that hauls the Table Mountain cable cars, the Times reported on Wednesday.
The chief executive of the company that runs the cableway, Sabine Lehmann, said two cars were stranded for 35 minutes when the fuses blew on Tuesday.
The fuses were replaced but blew again shortly afterwards.
”But this time we knew where the problem was and we fixed it within five minutes,” said Lehmann.
In January, an Eskom power failure jammed the cableway equipment and left scores of passengers stranded in mid-air for several hours.
Lehmann said technicians were investigating what caused the fuses to blow on Tuesday.
”Our fuse box is gigantic and it took a while to find the problem.”
No one was injured in the latest incident.
But Lehmann said: ”People get very nervy when hanging in mid-air”.
”All our safety procedures went completely according to plan.” – Sapa