{"id":173653,"date":"2012-04-06T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=173653"},"modified":"2012-04-06T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:03:15","slug":"eiffel-tower-lift-falls-down-during-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/04\/06\/eiffel-tower-lift-falls-down-during-test.html","title":{"rendered":"Eiffel Tower Lift Falls Down During Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An lift at the Eiffel Tower in Paris has fallen down its shaft as it was undergoing maintenance tests. Management says the incident is &#8216;serious&#8217; and is investigating its cause, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/3041\/20120406\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Local reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in March, French daily Le Parisien reports. The paper says that the lift, which was empty, slipped on a greased cable. But most worryingly, the emergency lock on the lift did not function so the booth slipped fifteen metres to the bottom of the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>The fall damaged the interior wall of the lift and broke a pane of glass.<\/p>\n<p>Eiffel Tower management say they are taking in the incident seriously and are investigating its causes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We immediately took this incident seriously,&#8221; \u00a0Nicolas Lefebvre, general director of the tower, said in an interview with Le Parisien. &#8220;We have asked for a internal assessment as well as an expert report from an independent sub-contractor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lift, which is situated in the northern pillar of the Eiffel Tower had been closed to the public for maintenance for a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Eiffel Tower welcomes almost 7 million visitors every year and is the most visited monument that charges an entrance fee in the world.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An lift at the Eiffel Tower in Paris has fallen down its shaft as it was undergoing maintenance tests. Management says the incident is &#8216;serious&#8217; and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24441,13208,40248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}