Sentosa cable car accident

SINGAPORE: On Jan 29, 1983, Mr Jagjit Singh and six family members had just spent a fun-filled day in Sentosa. Dusk was setting, and they were about to ...

After that I was just numb, and the guy slowly pushed me to the door and brought me up to the helicopter." Mr Singh yearns to revisit the scenes of his rescue, like that point in mid-air where he was winched up to the helicopter, or at the hospital helipad where his legs finally touched the ground. He was rushed to a holding area, where the media took flash photographs and desperate family members waited. Mr Singh did not realise that above, the second helicopter piloted by Mr Ledger was preparing to lower Mr Selvarajoo. The second option was for SAF commandos to crawl along the cables and secure the cars that were in danger of falling. He heard Mr Selvarajoo saying "ouch", then saw the winchman eventually use a hammer to jam the doors open. "That was the first time I went to Sentosa and took the cable car. On the wharf, a worker noticed that the top of the ship's oil derrick appeared to be getting close to the cableway, and used his walkie-talkie to alert Baptista. "He did not have to fly this mission, but he did, piloting one of the helicopters. He then ordered "hard-to-port", or a movement to the left. Baptista ordered the deckhand on the rear tugboat in Malay to "pull right". I would freak out because I couldn't get used to the loud shouting and all that," he said.