How to Survive a Falling Elevator?

Cheers Sabin Mathew

[Lesics]

Sorry for the mistake at 8:12. The Empire state building bomber aircraft accident happened in the year 1945. When I write the script, I put the complete focus on the art of storytelling. Initially I add random numbers for year, height etc. Just before the voice over I usually replace them with actual numbers. However, for this script, I forgot to replace the year :(
Thank you for your support - Sabin Mathew

[yensteel]

Lesics is back? I'm glad you're still making videos!

[seeker]

The amount of effort that goes on making these videos is immense and it's unfair that some jobless people making videos reacting to memes get more views and money

[JAYFULFILMZ]

I’ve always wondered what would happen if an elevator was to free fall! One of my biggest fears has been cured! Thanks Lesics! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[matraz]

The 1945 Empire State Building bomber accident killed 14 people, but not the elevator operator. She fell 70 floors and lived. The 2000 elevator accident in the Empire State Building fell 40 floors or 400 feet before the brakes stopped the car, as designed. That's floor 44 to 4. So if the cable would've broke at floor 38, that safety brake would have stopped the car at floor -2...

[Shadow_of_STLKR]

Elevator will never fall, blocking mechanism is activated almost immediately. Not exactly what you showed on video, but still your doing amazing job, showing how things works.. for all this years. Thx

[MEBYashSinghal]

Amazing Video, as a mechanical engineer truly appreciates the amount of hard work put in by you thanks a lot for such kind of videos

[selvaram]

I'm proud my self be a Elevator engineer👨‍🔧.. Thanks for the video

[planktonfun]

Jumping inside a free-falling elevator won't save you because both you and the elevator are falling at the same rate due to gravity, so your jump won't change your velocity relative to the elevator.

[thlord]

Horror movies have been silent since this came out.

[zykid]

I am very much excited to watch every videos of this channel. Wishing all the best mr sabin mathew and stay blessed❤.

[nicodeklerk]

There was this elevator where maintenance was never done and the hoisting cable kept breaking. Luckily the governor cable always worked and saved many lifes. Sadly the Governer cable was never inspected and snapped without anyone knowing. Then the unthinkable happened and the hoisting cable broke again and the elevator fell freely. Never say Never.

[Thatoneladywhodoesnotcare]

I feel like I’ve just completed orientation at the elevator safety break company and I’m ready for on the job training!

[bruhholmes]

I was in a free falling elevator about 8/9 years ago in Vancouver BC, we were doing renovations on the Sheraton Wall Center downtown & at the end of the day we'd usually pack about 15-25 guys (200lb+ demo guys) into one of these elevators like sardines; these weren't construction hoists they were the commercial elevators installed in the building.

Every now & then one of them would skip a couple floors on the way down & we'd all laugh.
Well, one day I was riding by myself & the elevator just started falling, around floor 25, it didn't catch itself it just kept falling - it was in free fall all the way to floor 6 where it stopped so fast that I was thrown to the floor from a standing position, I felt like I weighed 1200lb for about a half second & completely collapsed.

On the way down I remember thinking
"...Do I jump?
.... Do I lay down..?"
& When it started going single digits I thought
"God please just *unalive* (oh YouTube) me I don't want to be a cripple"
As soon as that thought finished crossing my mind the elevator stopped exactly where it was.

[FlyingHangman]

Been stuck in elevators 4 times in my life (twice in one day at seperate elevators). On one time, the cable slipped or something (didnt break) meaning the box shunted down all of avout a foot (if that far), and it stopped solid... engineer came out, took one look and told me the emergency break had stopped it... now that ive seen how it works, i can relate to everything happening.

[deathsinger]

I learned about elevator brakes a while ago, but I didn't understand it at the time, thank you for explaining!

[carmelpule]

The leaf spring shown at 6:20 will form a solid arch, . One anchor point should permit some lateral motion to retain the springiness required .

[Duke_Of_Havoc]

You just have to grow your Wolverine claws out and jam them on two opposite walls hard enough that they penetrate the wall beyond the elevator.

Then wait for the cables to be reattached before retracting your claws. 😂

[toquitad]

This video is correct, but only valid if there's proper maintenance on the elevator itself. And as we've seen countless times, this is not always the case and the elevator _can_ free-fall.

[mishalavik]

Я недавно устроился на работу в ГродноЛифт, и это видео оказалось очень полезным в обучении работы лифтов, спасибо автору