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Vienna - The crash of a maintenance gondola in the Zillertal valley in western Austria Thursday killed one workman and injured two others critically.
The accident happened during an accident recovery drill, Austria's ORF radio reported.
The maintenance gondola, occupied by three local workers, was moving uphill during a technical drill when it suddenly fell 40 metres into steep terrain 100 metres before reaching the first pylon.
A 29-year old workman was killed immediately, and his colleagues were were severely injured but were meanwhile out of immediate danger. They suffered heavy injuries to the head and legs.
The Penkenbahn cable car had been closed that morning, company manager Josef Geisler said. The cause of the accident was under investigation by the local authorities, but this was difficult owing to the almost inaccessible location of the site.
'We don't know what happened and why, and we have to wait for the experts' results,' Geisler said. |
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1308827.php/One_killed_in_gondola_accident_in_Austria__Roundup_
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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That's awful. It is a high gondola and a steep valley. I never really felt comfortable on it.
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Looks familiar - Is that the one from Mayrhofen?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Dobz wrote: |
| Looks familiar - Is that the one from Mayrhofen? |
Yes. This is the one going up to the Penken peak.
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Always remembered the cars on that one seeming much larger....is it the one from the strass hotel with the mid station?
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ollski, this is one picture from the link Markus inserted:
The accident took place 300 meters after the start and 100 meters before the first pylon.
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ollski, Yes, that looks like the Strass to the left of the picture, - tragic 
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Do they know yet how it happened?
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| Anniepen wrote: |
| ollski, Yes, that looks like the Strass to the left of the picture, - tragic |
It certainly does look familiar especially with the stream at the bottom, but the last time I went on that one the cars were grey and there were only two on each section of the lift that crossed in the middle. I am wondering if that one is the newer penken lift they built running from the bottom of the valley (when I say new probably 15 years!) as I seem to recall the cars on that being yellow. A tragedy whatever.
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