Skiing is a great sports but it also can bring disaster if something wrong happened. Last Thursday night, there are an accident where 3 people are seriously wounded at the Devils's Head Resort.
"There was a loud bang and it smelled like burned rubber," Brent Cashore of Evansville told WKOW-TV. "That's when it started coming backwards and the chairs were just flying and the thing is smokey, sparking."
"You could hear the chairs at the bottom crashing into things, metal clashing on metal, so at that point it was time to get off," David Brady told the station.
Some skiers said they saw dozens of people jumping off the lift to avoid smashing into a wall at the end, the television station reported.
Some people jumped more than 20 feet to the ground. "We were about three poles from the bottom realized it wasn't going to stop so we decided to jump off instead of crashing to the bottom," Carl Schleich told the station.
Sheriff's deputies still aren't sure what started the malfunction that caused the entire chairlift to move in reverse.
"There was a loud bang and it smelled like burned rubber," Brent Cashore of Evansville told WKOW-TV. "That's when it started coming backwards and the chairs were just flying and the thing is smokey, sparking."
"You could hear the chairs at the bottom crashing into things, metal clashing on metal, so at that point it was time to get off," David Brady told the station.
Some skiers said they saw dozens of people jumping off the lift to avoid smashing into a wall at the end, the television station reported.
Some people jumped more than 20 feet to the ground. "We were about three poles from the bottom realized it wasn't going to stop so we decided to jump off instead of crashing to the bottom," Carl Schleich told the station.
Sheriff's deputies still aren't sure what started the malfunction that caused the entire chairlift to move in reverse.
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