Straits Times reported that the Singapore Flyer (a larger version of the London Eye) which stopped about 3 weeks ago, had similar incidents before. The previous incidents were relatively minor as compare to the Dec 23 08 incident, where 173 passengers were stuck in the wheel for more than 6 hours.
Incidents like this would have similar organisational factors and cultural issues as in Columbia Space Shuttle incident (see my last post). Being one of the major tourist attractions of Singapore and the fact that there are lots of media and public attention on the flyer, it is not surprising that the organisation is under pressure to push the flyer to function as plan… I hope the on-going inquiry will look into these organisational and cultural issues.