He got stuck in the elevator on 41 Hours: What was he doing?
What does a man trapped in an elevator do for several dozen hours? You can see it in this video, accidentally recorded by an industrial camera. The photos came out close 10 years and became a sensation on the Internet. 15 October 1999 Nicholas White, employee of the economic weekly “Business Week”, worked late at night in the office on 43 upper floor of the McGraw-Hill building in New York City. Ok. time. 23 decided to take a cigarette break. Told a colleague, that he would come back soon and left. He went downstairs, smoked a cigarette and wanted to go back upstairs. He entered the elevator no 30, he pressed a button and his ordeal began. At one point the lights went out and the elevator suddenly stopped. After a while the light bulb came on again, but the elevator didn't start anymore. The building was deserted, no one heard White's call. – After a while it hit me, I'm in serious trouble, because it was the weekend – the unlucky man said on Monday in an interview with the US TV station ABC. Only after 41 hours, someone freed White from his trap. The American won a lawsuit against the building manager and elevator maintenance company. It has never been established, which was really the cause of the elevator failure. The most common thing is a sudden voltage drop. The film was posted on the magazine's website “The New Yorker” shows, what Nicholas White did through 41 hours spent in the elevator.
He got stuck in the elevator on 41 Hours: What was he doing?
