I was actually at Extreme World the night before the accident happened because someone in my family wanted to do it so I actually saw how it works. Basically as the elevator starts going up, the net does not move. The net doesn't start to go up until the people are about halfway up. Then the net is eventually raised higher and the elevator is at its peak. When the person hits the net the net is taken down somewhat because of the persons weight (i'm guessing thats the reason there are weight restrictions because they dont want the net going down TOO far). I don't think the elevator stopped short, but I would imagine it's hard to tell when you're so far up in the air. From what the articles now say is that there was no communication between the operator in the elevator and the operator on the ground. However i'm honestly not sure because I wasn't at Extreme World when it happened, I just heard the ambulances and heard about it all over the news.
