An armchair crashed on the Fronalpstock on Thursday evening. Four people were injured.
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Excitement in Stoos SZ: An armchair crashed on the Fronalpstock on Thursday evening. The Schwyz cantonal police confirmed this to BLICK. Four people were seriously injured in the accident. They were brought to surrounding hospitals with rescue helicopters.
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A message from the cantonal police on Twitter shows that the chair fell shortly after 10 p.m. at the upper section of the Stoos-Fronalpstock chairlift. As the cantonal police in Schwyz announced at BLICK’s request, it was a special late-night trip. The chairlift had been heading towards the valley.
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Four rescue helicopters, the emergency services of the Canton of Schwyz and the fire brigade were deployed. You have brought the six remaining passengers to safety on the following chairlift gondolas.
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Not the first armchair accident
It was not the first accident on an armchair of the lift on Fronalpstock. In March 2016, an empty armchair of the 4-seater Mettlen-Fronalpstock chairlift fell to the ground during an uphill ride. The crash occurred at column number 9. No people were injured at the time. The crashed armchair number 38 and the hoisting rope were damaged by the event.
At the time, the Swiss safety investigation agency (Sust) came to the conclusion that the arm was deflected by a gust of wind so far against the direction of travel that it got stuck on a support and was thereby levered by the rope.
At the time of the accident on Thursday evening there was no wind on the Fronalpstock, said a spokesman for the Schwyzer Kantonspolizei. Clarifications on the course of the accident are in full swing. (Nim / SDA)
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