Die ersten Bilder der Beinahe-Katastrophe in #stmoritz2017. pic.twitter.com/8XUeAzqe0n
— Sportschau (@sportschau) February 17, 2017
“That’s stupid, they should have been flying a bit higher.” -Racing Director Markus Waldner
A Swiss Air Force jet performing a low flyover of St. Moritz accidentally clipped an anchor line holding a overhead camera sending it crashing to the ground as reported by sbnation.com. Thankfully no one was injured.
This isn’t the first time a camera falling from the ski has nearly caused a catastrophe on course. Lets not forget the time Marcel Hirscher was nearly flattened by a camera drone while racing in Italy:
