A 35-year-old chairlift at the popular Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine that was scheduled for repairs or replacement broke while carrying a full load of skiers up the mountain, sending both adults and children plummeting to the ungroomed snow below.
According to a news report, eight skiers were hospitalized, including five adults and three children who were riding on one of five chairs that fell 25 to 30 feet onto a ski trail below the lift. The resort estimated there were anywhere fro 60 to 150 people on the chairlift at the time of the accident, and that the wind was gusting up to 40 mph when the lift snapped.
A ski coach who witnessed the accident said he head a “loud snapping noise” after the lift started up the mountain, and then heard screaming. He said he then looked away because “it was terrifying.”
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