Death from zipline: Woman slips from harness in front of horrified family

A forty-year-old woman who took advantage of the sun on Sunday to Italy’s Pito Valley with her daughter-in-law reportedly fell to her death in the middle of a long zip line after a problem with her harness.

“I should have been with her,” lamented the victim’s grieving husband Michael, who rushed to the scene of the accident, to Italian media La Repubblica. I thought she hurt herself, but now she’s gone.

On Sunday afternoon, the man chose to stay at home due to a toothache while his partner Ghislane Moutahir, 41, went with his daughter-in-law to Italy’s Pito Valley to zip line at 96km/h under the sun. “Sun” on Monday.

The moment she crossed, the woman would have stopped in the middle of the steel cable, where she would have started to struggle for a few seconds, before slipping out of her safety harness, in front of her horrified daughter-in-law, who was filming. Origin , as indicated by Italian authorities.

“She fell 20 meters from the channel into the forest and was killed instantly. She may have had some sort of panic attack, which may have been a struggle for her, or a medical episode, but we are awaiting the results of the post-mortem examination,” a spokesperson said.

According to Fly Company’s director, an investigation has been opened to understand how the equipment failed when the zip line has been operating for more than 13 years and welcomed more than 200,000 people. . Emotion, Matteo Sanguinity.

“We still don’t know what happened. […] We have never had any incidents before. I’m shocked and in disbelief,” he said, confirming that all proceedings would be “temporarily suspended” pending the outcome of the investigation, according to “The Sun”.