{"id":34791,"date":"2026-03-19T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:23:10","slug":"woman-killed-after-ski-gondolas-horror-crash-down-mountain-at-swiss-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34791\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after ski gondola’s horror crash down mountain at Swiss resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman, 61, has died after a gondola at a ski resort plunged down a mountain, flipping several times, in a dramatic crash that took place when there were ‘strong winds’\"The<\/p>\n

The gondola flipped several times before crashing (Image: AFP)<\/p>\n

A woman was killed when a ski gondola crashed down a mountain at a popular ski resort.<\/p>\n

The gondola tumbled down at Engelberg ski resort<\/a> in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday morning, March 18.<\/p>\n

Police<\/a> in the central Swiss<\/a> canton of Nidwalden said the gondola detached from the cable “for reasons that are still unclear” at about 11:00am local time.<\/p>\n

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One woman died in the horror crash(Image: AFP)<\/p>\n

There were strong winds at the time of the crash, according to eyewitnesses. Video footage has emerged that shows the gondola tumble down Mt Titlis and flip several times.<\/p>\n

The woman has been identified as a 61-year-old from the region and the cause of the crash is now being investigated.<\/p>\n

The police confirmed she was the only passenger in the Titlis Xpress cart when it detached from the cable.<\/p>\n

It had just departed from the Tr\u00fcbsee station and was climbing the middle section of the mountain when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n

Air rescue service, ambulances and police officers all attended the rescue operation.<\/p>\n

According to news.com<\/a> one skier reported “strong winds” and seeing a “jerk” before the cable crashed.<\/p>\n

The managers of the ski lifts shared their shock at the crash and director Norbert Patt said “our thoughts are with the victim’s loved ones”.<\/p>\n

Beren Akkaya, a school child at a local ski camp, also witnessed the crash. The 14-year-old said: “I was really shocked. We were then afraid to go back down in the gondola.”<\/p>\n

The cable car service was suspended and between 100 and 200 passengers were believed to be brought to safety from roughly 40 gondolas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman, 61, has died after a gondola at a ski resort plunged down a mountain, flipping several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[310,41,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-34791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-skiing","9":"tag-swiss","10":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116253701125847279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791","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=34791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}