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Canadian gondola crash
It's that nightmare you have every time you ride a gondola. Not the one where your car falls, but the one where the tower goes down and all of the cars fall.Yesterday at Whistler Blackcomb Resort, 177 km north of Vancouver, tragedy struck when a support tower for their gondola system snapped in half. Falling gondola cars hit a bus stop and a house, and another was suspended over an icy creek.
The good news is that all 53 passengers were successfully rescued, and while 5 required medical attention, no major injuries were reported.
Check out the story here on CNN for video footage.
Filed under: Skiing, Stories, North America, Canada, Video, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rudi Dec 17th 2008 1:31PM
One correction: Whistler-Blackcomb is 177km outside of Vancouver - a little more than 100 miles, about a 2 hour drive.
Annie Scott Dec 17th 2008 1:57PM
Quite right, Rudi. Thanks!