Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "When a Mine Elevator Falls Over a Kilometer" video.

  1. The 🚆 only fell 280 m, and weighed less than the elevator, which was enormous. It’s probably what took the train down into the mine in the first place.
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  2.  @CalebBaynton  yeah, he got it wrong. I think it's hard to imagine the size of this mine, or the 2 story elevator, which was compresses to 1/3 it/s height. The www says a normal RR engine is 430,000 pounds, and the one in the incident was 24,000--so it was a "little" shunter working the mine. Moreover, the elevator had 100+ ppl on it, so it was around 20,000 pounds of "meat"--unfortunately, The other thing he skips is that as you descend into Earth, it get's hot fast (c.f. Hell), so this truly had to be the worst possible scene in accident history. At least airplanes CFIT-ing at 300 knots into the Alps disperses the mess, and it's cold.
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  3.  @CalebBaynton  not according to wikipedia, which says it was 56 levels down.
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