One dead, another critically injured after gondola crash at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant

MONT-TREMBLANT, Que. — Quebec provincial police say one person has died and another critically injured after they were thrown from a sightseeing gondola at the popular Mont-Tremblant resort. 

Police say 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. 

Police said in an email that the other passenger has been transferred to a Montreal-area hospital and their life remains in danger. 

Investigators from the major crimes division have been dispatched to the scene.