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Deux-Alpes fatality - fall from cable car

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Rather horrible story - a 29 year old has fallen and died from a cable car. Him a d his friend were apparently drunk, filming each other, and one charged across the car, and threw himself against the plexiglass window Shocked

Write up in English, and link to article in French below:
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According to the first elements of the investigation, the two young people were heckling while filming themselves with their mobile phones. One of the two, measuring 1.90m and weighing more than 100 kilos, took off across the cabin and threw himself against the wall.
He then literally exploded the reinforced plexiglass, and fell through. He fell 40 meters to his death. not so nice details.
He fell back on the Bellecombe track, impaling himself on a beacon.


According to the director of SATA, which manages the Deux-Alpes ski lifts, the gondola was in perfect condition. “She had passed all the security tests” Fabrice Boutet told us. "Besides," he adds, "the cabin door didn't open in shock, it was the window that gave way. It's terrible. It's the first time that a such an accident happens in the station."
A psychological unit has been set up in the ski area

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/deux-alpes-un-skieur-d-une-vingtaine-d-annees-fait-une-chute-mortelle-depuis-une-telecabine-4810895
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@fixx, how awful.

Something a little similar happened off the old Brevent telecabine some years ago. One of the gendarmes went to investigate that the cabin windows were (usually) completely secure and pushed it straight out. That precipitated the planned replacement of the lift.
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@under a new name, Shocked Shocked
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Rather Darwin awardy mind. Lots in ski resorts that can kill you if you're drunk and stupid. Feel sorry for the pisteurs who had to mop that up and the lift ops people who'll be interrogated.
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@fixx, how awful.

Something a little similar happened off the old Brevent telecabine some years ago. One of the gendarmes went to investigate that the cabin windows were (usually) completely secure and pushed it straight out. That precipitated the planned replacement of the lift.


I remember they fitted metal "tabs" bolted through the structure, one at each corner of the window, to be able to run it until replacement on that one.
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It's happened before, and every time I hear it I cannot believe the stupidity of some people.
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Almost the same thing happened on the N-th floor of the tower block HQ of my old employer Toronto Dominion Bank.
Some idiot was saying "watch me, these windows are.incredible" and he launched himself at the full height window....and shattered it.
He fell a long, long way.

We all got a.memo to say we should not do the same!
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re rungsp's post which I really did not (want to) believe: https://wiki2.org/en/Death_of_Garry_Hoy
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rungsp wrote:
Almost the same thing happened on the N-th floor of the tower block HQ of my old employer Toronto Dominion Bank.
Some idiot was saying "watch me, these windows are.incredible" and he launched himself at the full height window....and shattered it.
He fell a long, long way.

We all got a.memo to say we should not do the same!


Shocked Shocked Shocked
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote:
Rather Darwin awardy mind. Lots in ski resorts that can kill you if you're drunk and stupid. Feel sorry for the pisteurs who had to mop that up and the lift ops people who'll be interrogated.


Apparently his mate was taking video of the incident in the cabin at the time. Skullie Should help with the Gendarmerie investigation.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1754153/Skiing-death-gondola-fall-French-Alps
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I do hope he hadn't reproduced.
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Assuming it is those small white ones?
They are dangerous & half of them don't even close properly.
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I do hope he hadn't reproduced.


A Darwin Award is posthumously awarded in this case
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phil_w wrote:
I do hope he hadn't reproduced.


A Darwin Award is posthumously awarded in this case


A posthumous Darwin Award is surely better than being able to collect the award in person. To win the award you must have permanently removed yourself from the gene pool by means of death or sterilisation via self-inflicted accident. Even if self-sterilisation wasn’t painful, the embarrassment would be too much for most.

Anyway, awful story but thankfully he didn’t injure anyone else. I was quite taken aback at how much alcohol was getting drunk at lunchtime in the 3V a couple of weeks ago. These sad events prove that skiing and alcohol don’t mix well.
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Maybe the cabins need to be made idiot proof. RIP.
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I don’t understand why anyone would launch themselves at a window unless it was some sort of dare? Puzzled
Terrible thing to witness, what a waste of a life due to a moment of stupidity.
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Dave of the Marmottes wrote:
Rather Darwin awardy mind. Lots in ski resorts that can kill you if you're drunk and stupid. Feel sorry for the pisteurs who had to mop that up and the lift ops people who'll be interrogated.


He took one for team.
Those Telecabines are 40 years old & are not a good state of repair.
I think once investigations are done, it will be found how faulty & not fir for purpose some of them are.
Some good may actually come of it.
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VolklAttivaS5 wrote:
unless it was some sort of dare? Puzzled


No, I still don’t get it even then.
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Gored wrote:
Assuming it is those small white ones?
They are dangerous & half of them don't even close properly.


It was the Jandri Express I think. Solid well made cabins taking about 20 souls.
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Gored wrote:
Some good may actually come of it.
I think the best that can be said about this is that the cabins may be checked for safety, however you cannot completely protect people from themselves.
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VolklAttivaS5 wrote:
unless it was some sort of dare? Puzzled


No, I still don’t get it even then.


Agreed, it was a stupid thing to do regardless.
I thought it might be some sort of ‘dare’ because the other one was videoing it with his phone.
I could understand it happening if a fight had broken out between them within the gondola and it got out of hand but the fact the other one was videoing it makes me think they were doing something stupid.
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VolklAttivaS5 wrote:

I could understand it happening if a fight had broken out between them within the gondola and it got out of hand but the fact the other one was videoing it makes me think they were doing something stupid.

The tone of the article in French very much implied that they were messing around rather than fighting, the translation perhaps loses a little. Indeed, it may have been updated now, as I don't recall seeing this bit yesterday
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... fell to his death 40 meters through the plexiglass of the gondola, against which he had thrown himself to play.
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@Chaletbeauroc, such a tragic waste of a life due to pure stupidity, terrible shame!
As I said before to witness something like that on the ground, poor souls, especially the kids.
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Impaled on a piste marker, in the Times report.
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VolklAttivaS5 wrote:

As I said before to witness something like that on the ground, poor souls, especially the kids.

I note that they've set up a psychological support unit for the pisteurs and any other skiers impacted.


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@Dr John, not entirely sure that will have been the cause of death
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@Chaletbeauroc, witnesses are not mentioned in the official reports no, but it was discussed on FB and someone had heard from a resident of LDA that there were unfortunately ‘lots’ of witnesses, including kids Sad


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@under a new name, A fall of>40m is unlikely, but not impossible, to be survivable.
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@VolklAttivaS5, I edited my comment having seen reports on other news sites which clarified that the support unit wasd available for anyone affected.
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@under a new name, it won't have helped
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davidof wrote:
Maybe the cabins need to be made idiot proof. RIP.


Anytime something is made idiot proof they just make a better idiot.

As said before a terrible price to pay for a few moments of stupidity
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@Chaletbeauroc, I suppose …

@Dr John, No I guess not!
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I wonder if he had a false sense of security from doing it on polycarbonate before in less risky circumstances.
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Sad and needless loss of life.

Jandri is one of the main uplifts especially for summer ski IIRC - hopefully won't cause an issue with the lift. Don't think the test for whether a lift is safe or not should be based on incidents like this.
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Gored wrote:
Assuming it is those small white ones?
They are dangerous & half of them don't even close properly.


Even when (never, when out of the station) the doors are fully open, seated occupants don't fall out of them.
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Some good may actually come of it.
I think the best that can be said about this is that the cabins may be checked for safety, however you cannot completely protect people from themselves.


Stupid is incurable, sadly.
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motyl wrote:
Gored wrote:
Some good may actually come of it.
I think the best that can be said about this is that the cabins may be checked for safety, however you cannot completely protect people from themselves.


There is a pretty robust testing protocol for all types of uplift system.

Although, as with the Brevent incident I referred above, robust does not necessarily mean “complete”.
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