{"id":1004017689,"date":"2010-02-09T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004017689"},"modified":"2022-12-08T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:00:50","slug":"power-supply-problem-shuts-dubai-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/power-supply-problem-shuts-dubai-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Supply Problem Shuts Dubai Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 2010<br \/>\nBy Allison Landa, News Editor<br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/02\/tower_vision_header_left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004017690\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/power-supply-problem-shuts-dubai-tower\/tower_vision_header_left\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/02\/tower_vision_header_left.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"616,212\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tower_vision_header_left\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/02\/tower_vision_header_left.jpg?w=616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/02\/tower_vision_header_left.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tower_vision_header_left\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1004017690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A month after the At the Top observation deck opened at the world\u2019s tallest man-made tower, a malfunction at the deck has shut the tower to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists on the 124th-story deck, which is located at the 2,717-foot tall Burj Khalifa, found themselves stranded on Saturday for more than an hour due to what officials at the building called \u201ctechnical issues with the power supply\u201d in a statement. The tower is slated to reopen on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.5 billion Burj Khalifa officially opened on Jan. 4 and is located near Dubai\u2019s main business district. In a statement released Jan. 6, officials at the tower said that \u201can estimated crowd of 400,000 gasped in amazement as fireworks erupted and searchlights beamed from every platform of the tower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burj Khalifa general manager Thomas Dempsey also said in the statement that the views from the tower were comparable to those from the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe panoramic views are like those from an airplane,\u201d he said. \u201cSuch is your height above ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported that at the time of the malfunction, visitors heard a sound like a small explosion and then saw dust seeping through an elevator door. According to the AP, there were 15 people trapped in the elevator and 60 more stranded on the observation deck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after the At the Top observation deck opened at the world\u2019s tallest man-made tower, a malfunction at the deck has shut the tower to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":1004017690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21742,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004017689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest","category-regions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Power Supply Problem Shuts Dubai Tower - 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