Rome, January 9, 2024 – Una Gondola lift fell to the ground Tyrol Austrian, on Tuesday around 10:22 a.m., near the Hochoetz ski area. The four people who were on board the eight-seater cabin, which crashed at an altitude of around 8-10 meters, were seriously injured. According to the Austrian Kronen Zeitung, the four are part of a Danish family: father, son, daughter and an uncle. The two men are 49 and 46 years old, the two boys are 20 and 19 years old. According to the police – as the public broadcaster Orf reports – the 49-year-old is in danger of death and is being treated as an inpatient at the Innsbruck University Hospital.
At the moment the police seem to be ruling this out the technical failure hypothesis. The accident was apparently caused by Tree falls on the cable the cable car. “There was no wind anyway,” an official told Kronen. Other two German citizens those who were on the nearby cable car stayed Slightly injured due to vibrations of the supporting cable.
cable car, almost three kilometers long, transports skiers from the valley to around 2,000 meters and, according to the spokesman for the facility, it was full at the time of the accident due to the sunny weather and heavy snowfall of the last few days. All other skiers were informed of what was happening via loudspeakers and redirected to the Ochsengarten, another area of the ski area.
Accident on a cable car in Hochoetz, Austria-Tyrol
The rescue
Emergency services immediately arrived at the scene and began rescue and rescue operations. The operation was difficult and was carried out by helicopter: The crash site was actually in relatively rough terrain in the forest. The 4 injured people were urgently transferred to hospitals in Zams and Innsbruck.
The precedent in Tyrol
The last serious accident in Austria dates back to September 5, 2005, in Söldenalso in Tyrol: nine died and six were injured after a helicopter lost heavy aircraft Tank for liquid cement who accidentally fell directly onto the cable car.