On 23 May 2021, an aerial tram on the Stresa–Alpino–Mottarone Cable Car crashed to the ground after a traction or haulage cable snapped about five metres (16 ft) from the summit of Mottarone, a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. Normally, a hydraulic safety brake would have stopped the runaway car immediately but the cable car was operating illegally with the brake disabled. The crash killed fourteen passengers in the cable car, and seriously injured one child.
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Stresa, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy - May 23, 2021
The crash of a cable car near picturesque Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people, occurred after a cable snapped and an emergency brake failed, investigators said Monday.
The cable car had almost reached the end station on Mottarone mountain, a nearly 5,000-foot peak, on Sunday afternoon when it suddenly started sliding backward. It slid for hundreds of meters at a height of nearly 40 feet, hitting a pillar and plunging to the ground. There was only one survivor, a 5-year-old boy.
Hikers and local residents said they heard a hissing sound, presumably when the cable snapped and twisted through the air, and then a loud bang.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/world/europe/Italy-cable-car-accident.html
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ty for the information but NY times is a paywall sadly
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the shittiest thing is imagine what’s going through their mind the entire time.
Like what do you do? where do you stand? how do you brace? what about your loved ones?! It would probably cause a lot of people to freeze.
brutal.
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They could probably embrace each other and hope the fall can be broken by the ones fortunate enough to be on the edges
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Horrifying to think of it. Probably the saddest part.
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Exactly what I thought of too
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