According to Fox 9 News, 15 passengers visiting the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai were trapped for over 45 minutes on Wednesday. There were many people visiting the tower to go to the observation deck of the newly opened building. The tower has been open just over a month now, reported New York Daily News, but recently shut down after the now widely known elevator incident.
The 15 passengers were rescued, shaken but unharmed, by building staff and rescue crews lowering a ladder down into the elevator itself. I has not yet been determined what caused the elevator to faulty and stop in the middle of its decent. A witness to the incident said that it sounded like "a small explosion."
The Burj Khalifa is currently the world's tallest building standing 2,717 feet into the sky. The observation deck, where the passengers of the elevator were, was the only part of the building that had been open. It has not been announced when the building will reopen.
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