A baby girl is expected to survive after sustaining serious injuries in a 100-foot fall from a cable car. The girl and her parents were taking a cable car intended only for freight use down from the Baerlaui Alp in Switzerland when . Her mother, 31, and father, 38, did not survive.
Rescuers on the scene heard wails from the bushes and found the one-year-old alive inside a carrier rucksack, which they believed saved the babys life. The rucksack cushioned the fall, said a rescue services spokesperson. Otherwise, she would be dead too.
An investigation is now being launched into why the family was allowed to take a freight-only cable car down from the mountain. One arrest, believed to be the mountain worker who allowed them passage on the car, has been made.
The baby is recovering at a nearby hospital where doctors and nurses have nicknamed her Eidelweiss, after the hardy mountain flower.