[Red Boots]

You have to be a real loser to screw up that bad on a simple ski lift. I see 5 year old kids do it right thousands of times a year.

In his defense, it's a high speed lift, so you're quite a ways out pretty quickly, if anything does happen And,the article does says it was chair malfunction.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Is that like a wardrobe malfunction? The only times I’ve ever seen anything like this was when the passenger screwed up. There is very little that can go wrong with the chairlift that would cause such an event.