Inspectors with the New Hampshire Fire Marshal's Office are investigating a pair of recent mechanical failures on busy ski lifts. On Sunday, a chair on the Flying Bear lift at Attitash detached from the steel cable. The skier on board and the chair both fell about 20 feet onto the snow. Investigators say that the skier is now recovering.

Passholders throughout the region were shocked to hear of rescues involving New Hampshire ski resorts this week. Our sister station, WMUR, reported 64 people were saved from a stalled ski lift on Cannon Mountain in Franconia on Wednesday,

Sixty-four passengers were evacuated from a chairlift at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire, Wednesday after a mechanical error, according to news reports and a press statement shared by the ski area. A bolt affixed to the power take-off (PTO) shaft failed on the Peabody Express Quad lift at approximately 10:13 a.

Skiers skiing under the tram at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. The Associated Press reports the Wednesday, Feb. 5 Cannon Mountain evacuation comes just four days after a chair detached and fell at a nearby resort. It took two hours to use a rope to lower 64 passengers from the Peabody Express.

One guest was transported to Memorial Hospital after a chair fell from a ski lift at Attitash Mountain Resort Sunday, officials said.

Dozens of people had to be taken off a ski lift by rope at Cannon Mountain after one of its quad lifts experienced a mechanical failure.

Dozens of skiers had to be rescued from a broken chairlift on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire Wednesday morning.