One person has died and another remained in critical condition on Sunday after they were thrown from a sightseeing gondola at the popular Mont-Tremblant resort in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains.
Provincial police said the crash occurred shortly before noon after a piece of construction equipment struck the gondola at the mountain resort around 105 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
The force of the impact threw the two occupants out of the gondola, police said.
“Unfortunately, the two people fell several meters to hit the ground,” police spokesman Sgt. Eric Cadotte said in an interview.
The injured person has been transferred to a Montreal-area hospital, police said, and their life remains in danger….