The accident occurred when the arrival station was just a few meters away. A 41-year-old woman, foreign from the first checks, but resident in Italy for some time, died in Bema (Sondrio), in the Orobie Alps in Valtellina, after falling from the zip-line of the Fly Emotion sports facility. The victim apparently unhooked himself from his harness and fell from a height of forty meters, falling into the woods. A deadly flight, at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour, which left her no escape.
The request for intervention was made shortly after 12.30pm on Sunday: the Morbegno Alpine Rescue technicians and the firefighters were on site, together with the experts from the Sagf of the Guardia di Finanza, who are entrusted with the investigations, and the magistrate on duty. The dynamics of the accident are still unclear at the moment. The woman would have fallen after slipping out of the harness, it is not clear whether it was due to the straps breaking or due to some error in the attachment at the start. It is unlikely that she, perhaps taken ill, but it is only one of her hypotheses, could have detached herself, forcing the security systems.
The Sondrio Prosecutor’s Office, led by Piero Basilone, ordered the seizure of the plant and an autopsy on the body. Fly Emotion allows tourists, via a rope suspended over the void, 230 meters above sea level, to pass from the town of Bema to the other side of the mountain, up to Albaredo via San Marco. It is the only facility in Italy that allows you to fly on two different routes, one outward and one return, secured with a special harness to a trolley, which slides along a steel cable. Inaugurated in 2011, last year it registered over 15 thousand visitors.
«It is not yet known precisely what may have happened. I am shocked and in disbelief. We are at the complete disposal of the judiciary who is now investigating. And we are close to the victim’s family.” Thus Matteo Sanguineti, CEO of Bema’s Flay Emotion company. «The air plant – explains Sanguineti – was inaugurated in 2011. Over 200 thousand people will have flown in the crossing between the town of Bema and that of Albaredo. We have never had any accidents whatsoever. Everything happens in maximum safety with special harnesses. I am shocked and in disbelief.”