The accident was probably caused by a failure of the chairlift pulley, which caused the supporting rope to give way. The skiers then started falling off the seats, according to El País newspaper Miguel Ángel Clavero, director of the office for crisis situations in the autonomous region of Aragon, where Astún is located. According to the police, some of the skiers fell from a height of 15 meters.
Initially, the media reported that 17 people were seriously injured in the cable car crash, but according to rescuers, their number stabilized at ten, while another twenty were treated at the scene of the accident.
Among the injured is Lorey Maizová’s friend, who suffered a head injury during the fall. According to Maizová, the cable car was very busy. “The slopes were full because it was a sunny day and good snow,” she noted, according to El País.
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“We were sitting on a sofa and suddenly it was like a free fall. Then it started swinging from one side to the other, panic broke out,” Spanish MEP for the People’s Party Borja Giménez Larraz told the newspaper.
Jump or stay?
“Then there was a moment when one had to decide whether to jump or stay. I saw how some jump from a really great height,” he added, adding that he escaped unharmed.
The Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has announced that it will provide free tickets from any station in Spain to the cities of Zaragoza and Huesca to the relatives of people affected by the cable car accident.
People will only have to go to one of the ticket offices or information centers of the Spanish railways, which also operate cable cars in the country, and get tickets there. “If necessary, the company will also help the injured to return home,” the ministry said.
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