The biggest cable car accidents in the world |
August 29, 1961 – A low-altitude jet cut the cable car on the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont Blanc massif in France and the three cabins fell into the abyss. Perished six people. |
December 25, 1965 – The fall of the cable car cabin in Puy-de-Sancy ve France he requested seven dead and ten wounded. |
December 6, 1970 – When the cabin fell in the Dolomites between Bolzano and Merano in Italy five people died. |
July 12, 1972 – Thirteen victims demanded the fall of the cable car in Bettmeralp, Switzerland. |
October 26, 1972 – In the event of a collision between two cabins in the French resort of Deux Alpes in the department of Isere nine people died. |
March 10, 1976 – In the Italian winter resort of Cavalese near Trento in Dolomitech when a fully occupied cable car cabin falls 43 people died. |
Feb 13, 1983 – The fall of three cabins in Champoluc ve Val d’Aosta he requested 11 victims. |
March 1, 1987 – The fall of about fifty chairlift cabins leading to Mount Ardiden in six people did not survive the French part of the Pyrenees; another 25 were seriously injured. |
1989 members – Eight people died in a cable car accident near the town of Alpe d’Huez in French Alps. |
June 1, 1990 – The fall of the cable car from a height of 20 meters killed 15 people and injured another 45 in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. |
February 3, 1998 – Twenty people diedwhen an American fighter caught on the cables of a cable car and knocked its cabin into the depths of the Italian Cavalese. |
July 1, 1999 – All of them 20 passengers died during the cable car accident in Saint-Etienne-en-Dévoluy in French Alps. The accident occurred when a rope came loose on the cable car to Mount Pic-de-Bure and the cabin collapsed to a depth of 80 meters. |
October 3, 1999 – Eleven tourists died and 20 were injured in a cable car accident in the south China. The triple-overloaded cabin of the cable car fell from a height of 100 meters and then crashed into the valley. |
November 11, 2000 – A fire that engulfed a funicular railway in a tunnel while driving to the Kitzsteinhorn in an Austrian ski resort Kaprun, he requested 155 victims (also one Czech). 152 people lost their lives directly in the tunnel, and another three were poisoned in the upper station by poisonous gases. Only 12 people were saved. |
September 5, 2005 – Nine dead and seven wounded required an accident of a cable car in the mountain resort of Sölden in Austrian Tyrol. All the victims were young Germans, killing six children and three adults who went skiing in the summer snow in an alpine position. The accident was caused by a load transported by helicopter, which crashed on the rope of the cable car and subsequently one of the cabins, which then fell to a depth of about 50 meters. |
June 25, 2017 – Four Indian tourists and three locals died after a cable car accident at the alpine resort of Gulmarg in the Indian part Kashmir. A tree fell on one of the cabins of the cable car, blown by a strong wind, and the cabin fell from a height of at least 30 meters. |
May 23, 2021 – When the cable car cabin falls on northern Italy died nine people, two severely injured children were taken to the hospital by rescue helicopter. According to current information, just before the destination station, the cabin of the cable car leading from the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore to the nearby alpine peak Mottarone broke off. |
Source: CTK |
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