{"id":34658,"date":"2026-03-18T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34658\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:49:06","slug":"one-dead-after-titlis-xpress-cable-car-cabin-falls-at-swiss-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34658\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after Titlis Xpress cable car cabin falls at Swiss ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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One person died Wednesday when a cable car cabin at a Swiss ski resort<\/a> fell and crashed on a snowy mountainside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fatal incident happened at the ski resort of Engelberg in central Switzerland around 11 a.m. local time, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2 SKIERS KILLED IN AVALANCHE ON POPULAR MONT BLANC SKIING ROUTE NEAR FRENCH-SWISS BORDER<\/a><\/p>\n

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A gondola accident killed one in the Engelberg ski area in Switzerland on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Kanton Nidwalden)<\/p>\n

“A cabin of the \u2018Titlis Xpress\u2019 gondola lift between Tr\u00fcbsee and Stand detached from the cable and plunged down the snow-covered slope in rugged terrain,” a press release states. “A person who was in the cabin at the time of the accident sustained fatal injuries.”<\/p>\n

The person was identified as a 61-year-old woman. Her exact cause of death<\/a> has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

Investigators from several agencies were looking into how the accident happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AMERICAN SKIERS RESCUED AFTER GETTING LOST NEAR OLYMPIC VENUE IN THE ITALIAN ALPS<\/a><\/p>\n

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A gondola accident killed one in the Engelberg ski area in Switzerland on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Kanton Nidwalden)<\/p>\n

“It’s also important for us that the incident is investigated down to the second. We will provide all the data without gaps,” said Norbert Patt, CEO of Titlis cable cars, during a news conference, the Blick newspaper<\/a> reported. “It’s an extraordinary event. Gondolas shouldn’t crash,” he added.<\/p>\n

Patt said there was a breeze at the time the gondola fell, but could not say how strong the winds<\/a> were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several schoolchildren attending a ski camp witnessed the accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A gondola accident killed one in the Engelberg ski area in Switzerland on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Kanton Nidwalden)<\/p>\n

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“I was really shocked. We were then afraid to go back down in the gondola,” a 14-year-old girl told the news outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One person died Wednesday when a cable car cabin at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[19053,197,307,41,17],"class_list":["post-34658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-disasters","tag-europe","tag-sports","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116251916011665796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}