http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,189238,00.html?

this article is regarding the stoppage of the Singapore Flyer.

the cause of the huge wheel stopping was actually a small fire. Its ironic and quite dumb if you think of it logically. How can a major tourist attraction fail to just one small flame? And as a result of the failure to design better quality cables, passengers on the Flyer were stuck up there for 7 hours.

many people laughed at the news, while others thought that the passengers might have felt angry. but if i were in the passengers' shoes, i would have felt blessed instead of feeling unlucky. how many times in your life would you get that rare opportunity to be lowered on harnesses and ropes from the top of the observation wheel? and as Mr Mohd said, he was not really worried for the passengers as most of them were smiling and giggling away when the wheel stopped for many hours.

i think everyone can learn a lesson from this incident. when we set our heart into making or doing something, we must look for every possible loophole, whether big or small. just because the wheel is so big, does not mean its invulnerable to small problems. if they had thought of this small and minute fault that could have happened, they might have created a backup system lest it really happens.