At least nine dead after cable car drops in the Italian Alps | DW News
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- Rescue teams in northern Italy report that at least nine people have been killed in a cable-car accident.
As yet there are few details on what happened in the mountains near Stresa - close to the summit of the Mottarone peak, overlooking Lake Maggiore. Rescuers say several people, including children, have been airlifted to hospital. The steep mountainside covered with trees makes access overland difficult.
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2 kids survived but it's heartbreaking to think that they just lost whatever family they had with them at the time of the accident.
One of the two children died, at the Regina Margherita hospital they are trying to save the life of the other child
@@alphiero4748 Dear God..😢
As others already said, one of the children died.. The only survivor is a 5 year old boy who lost his brother, parents and great-grandparents in the crash 😢
Only one survivor. Pray for Eitan😞
@martin81bayern There is an italian foundation for Eitan which raised more than 40k Euros.
This is no accident. This is negligence
Very sad news..May the souls rest in peace
There is no second security cable to hold the cabin in case of the primary cable failing???
cable cars are supposed to be very safe. accidents likely due to poor maintenance or sabotage
@@3TYKX elevators are also supposed to be very safe and yet they have a security mechanism in case of cable fail.
Overcapacity perhaps
@@Gmanu29 I read in The Guardian that it wasn't full due to covid restrictions.
There is, usually when the primary cable snaps magnetic brakes automatically clamp down on the secondary cable. Apparently, the brakes failed to activate.
thats why I never go in a cable car...
Rest In Peace
I use them, but it always feels kinda scary a few hundred meters in the air. The Zugspitze accident in 2018 decreased my trust a little bit more and now this accident 🙁. But statistically they’re still very safe.
Yep
@@FL0RiaN94 what are they for?
@@modesto885 they carry you to and from mountains - sort of like a ski lift
My worst nightmare
Your worst nightmare ? how long did it take to think that up ?
Terrible news, hope 🤞 the two children have survived. Again lives lost for nothing. Souls rest in peace 🙏☮️.
Aho Pajjiii
Sasrikal paaji
one of the two children died, at the Regina Margherita hospital they are trying to save the life of the other child
One has just dead...
to be honest:
-Bettmeralp, in the Swiss Alps: 13 dead.
July 1, 1999: a cabin on the Pic de Bure cable car in France crashes and causes the death of 20 people.
- November 14, 2000: a fire breaks out on a funicular train that climbs through a tunnel from the tourist village of Kaprun to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier in Austria. 155 people die of smoke suffocating in the accident. It is the most serious accident by number of deaths in a funicular in the last 40 years.
- 5 September 2005: a large concrete beam transported by a helicopter crashes on a cabin of the cable car on the Tyrolean glacier of the Oetztal, in Austria. 9 people died in the accident.
grazie... mi sta salendo la rogna a leggere certi commenti
My prayers for those lost .. Very sad
Italy is always having a high incident of Cable-Car accidents. Makes you wonder if and who does the maintenance and who supplies the construction material. Remember the set-up with the Freeways (Autobahns) and the corruption there. What about bridges that collapse because of construction fraud. Oh, Italy. At it again?
Yeah we know...i live near this cable car and now i am shocked but here in italy there is so much corruption, mayby this time was only unluck but italy have to stop cheaters
@@fraz208 there is no way to stop corruption when the corruption you want to stop makes the laws and are above the laws they make.
The last cable car incident was from a USA military jet ripping the cord.
to be honest:
-Bettmeralp, in the Swiss Alps: 13 dead.
July 1, 1999: a cabin on the Pic de Bure cable car in France crashes and causes the death of 20 people.
- November 14, 2000: a fire breaks out on a funicular train that climbs through a tunnel from the tourist village of Kaprun to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier in Austria. 155 people die of smoke suffocating in the accident. It is the most serious accident by number of deaths in a funicular in the last 40 years.
- 5 September 2005: a large concrete beam transported by a helicopter crashes on a cabin of the cable car on the Tyrolean glacier of the Oetztal, in Austria. 9 people died in the accident.
@@intersezioni unfortunately bad incidents happen everywhere. Italy is not perfect, just as no nation on earth is.
14 ppl killed 😥 one of the kids that were airlifted didn't make it and another in critical condition. Rip 🙏
Condolences to the families who lost their loved ones from this tragic incident. 🙏💔😭
I hope the two children survive.
Although I couldn't imagine their mental state. They must have watched their parents/guardians died protecting them inside the car. And that's a trauma that can last ages. 😭
1 child unfortunately died. The other one is still in critical condition.
@@ariton2990Oh, nooo... 😭
Then again, at least that one kid no longer feels any suffering. And has reunited with the parent in the sky.
I hope the other one will get through it this harrowing ordeal, regardless of what happens.
one of the two children died at the Regina Margherita hospital, the kid that survived has lost dad, mom and his brother
The will not die
@@angelaowen4181 one of the two children died at the Regina Margherita hospital
Very sad, condolences and hope the injured recover 🙏🏻
My God, prayers goes out to the victims. Yesterday I was also in Cable car, feeling odd since I am afraid of heights, and coincidence too that I even talked to a friend over dinner one of my Favorite place in Italy. Lago Maggiore
The usual: payers are cheap
Prayers wont help
Praying for the family's praying for the children 🙏🇮🇹
relax bro...dont emotional
Why did your imaginary friend allow them to die?
@@agi1041 mistakes have been happening since the beginning of time this is not God's fault p.s. look in the mirror your one of the biggest mistakes 😥😜
@Helen Pauls my God is real and there are no Gods before HIM
@Helen Pauls HE is the Omega and Alpha
Rip. Very sad. I hope whoever is in charge of health and safety has answers.
Horrific! Bet they figure out that leaving it stationary for over a year with the same tension & slack points made the cable develop points of memory\weaknesses of those areas.
It fell 300 metres apparently..I think it probably got rusty like you said ..
@@mshammond_uk1831 The other thing is when that cable reaches the same point as it was dormant in, odds are it was one heck of a bounce from the cables memory & bends.
@@mshammond_uk1831 I saw the close up picture of the cable overhead. It looked like about 35 meters or so to the cable. There would be no reason to have it that high off the ground from the top. It was almost there.
The cable wasn't even the only problem, there are emergency brakes which were supposed to stop the cable car but staff members DISABLED them because they needed to be repaired and the company didn't want to spend the money needed and shut down the system for a few weeks...
@@GommyCreations The cable is very long in one of the video's, so it would have done nothing for the cable car to keep it from falling and rolling. So sad. Maybe cable from China. How do you know this? Do your work there or know someone who does or you are guessing to get a response and conspiracy theory???
Why not have a safety backup cable installed? Keeping a cable car hanging off 1 cable only is a disaster waiting to happen. Why not have a backup cable? I'm going to guess because of cost-saving and greed. Sure, insufficient maintenance probably was to blame, but this still would have been prevented by having at least ONE backup cable. Elevators have multiple cables, why don't these cable cars too!?
could be a weaker cable with line to people and roof that opens easy in middle or cloth roof so car falls but ppl dangle
There is, usually when the primary cable snaps magnetic brakes automatically clamp down on the secondary cable. Apparently, the brakes failed to activate.
Apparently they lacked maintenance, the authorities are still investigating.
Now fail-safe measures should be added to all systems. (Redundancy in a secondary cable, both running parallel and capable of holding the gondola on each's own.)
😆😆😆why now and not from day one?
@@nyakwarObat Because of the greedy mf's
@@nyakwarObat Historically, these systems have been very safe actually. A dual system would help ensure this NEVER happens again, essentially.
@@DetroitMicroSound would you go into a lift without the safety chain?
Install an air bag for the cable car might be a more viable and economical solution.
So Sad that, Disasters all around! Sheer cable management negligence maybe, Heartfelt condolences to bereaved families,RIP to lost lives🙏
Are there no annual inspection made as with elevators?
Not the first time this has happened, is it ?
Negligence. They knew that the break was tempered but they didn't do anything. And now, a lot of dead people.... Sadness.
So sad😭😭😭
Didn't see or heard some warplane bypassing?🤔
it must be lacks of maintenance since start of pandemic 1:38
The carrying cable has not been inspected properly, the inner strands can rust and not be seen by the naked eye, the usual procedure is to use an electronic ring to read inside the cable construction as it travels along the cable...British Ropes knows all about this technique.
In just one sentence, comfortably sitting at home, very far away from the accident location, you managed to find out the cause, who’s responsible, the solution, insult a country and worship the technological superiority of your own. I can’t think about anything more British than that.
@@ruttolomeo1987 The main cable failed ! How and why. Its a major tragedy for the area and Italy
Don't trust cables and cable cars or the people who say they're safe -- they're in it for the money. Unless of course you don't mind dying, then go ahead and trust them with your life.
Cable cars are statistically way more safe then e.g. trains, cars, planes, busses, cycling ... well no dont trust all of them
@@thomashirmer4951 or every 1000 passengers in 2008, there were 0.000005 deaths. If I'm doing my maths correctly, that is one in every 200,000,000 passengers, or a 99.9999995% non-death carry rate :)
In 2009, same chart - there were no deaths.
The same page looks at the deaths in rail, trolleybus and other forms of transportation, all of which have a higher accident and death rate. So basically, if you're willing to get into a method of transportation on the ground, statistically, you're safer off travelling by gondola/cable-car :)
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For context, how does the 2008 number compare to air travel? - Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight Sep 13 '13 at 12:35
@DanNeely no idea, only found the stats for ground-based travel. Generally you're not considering flight for the distances that cable cars / gondolas travel. - Mark Mayo♦ Sep 13 '13 at 13:32
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I'm thinking that the question is not amount of fatalities per passenger, but the number of accidents per ride. Some accidents are non-fatal, while some (few) have several fatalities. This isn't shown in the table in your source, though. - Nix Sep 15 '13 at 16:17
@Nix These statistics are generally not measured in accidents per ride, as each gondola may carry different numbers of passengers. It's far more common to measure per x number of persons, as then you can work out the chances for an individual. - Mark Mayo♦ Sep 15 '13 at 23:17
@DanNeely - Air travel is roughly comparable, at around the 1-in-100-million mark: speaking purely in terms of "proper" airlines, not some bloke flying a Cessna around in fog over his farm - Jon Story Feb 17 '15 at 11:21
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That's the, "you could die in the bathtub" argument fallacy.
@@facitenonvictimarum174 nope - i know about the possible dangers. I just wanted to point out that ropeways are still a very safe system
@@thomashirmer4951
Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize you. I'm just saying no matter how safe riding in cable cars is compared with other vehicles or devices, that's not as safe as NOT riding in cable cars. And that applies to taking any kind of unnecessary risk. It depends on how much you value life and how much you care about the people you leave behind after dying from taking an unnecessary risk.
God bless you
Collapsing bridges, falling cable cars. Italy, what is going on??? Very sad
What is going on in the 🌏
@@cominghometorome811 relax bro...dont emotional..
@@zackbro4886 It's not easy you see what happened in Africa 🌋 well maybe God is angry with all of the witch craft & voodoo they do... do you know corruption 🌋⚡😨
Sad news ....Rest In peace 🙏🙏🙏🕉️shanti
Sad when anyone dies but especially when it’s kids. Like there’s a hierarchy.
what about palestines kids?? 🙂
So if there's no hierarchy why you saying especially the kids cos that's hierarchy in itself
@@bellamondo38 still applies, still sad
@@bellamondo38 What about Israeli kids? Hamas started it. If someone was trying to kill you or your family, would you not fight back?
@@JohnSmith-uy7sv how many israel kids had died?? just saw the statistics ..
we want peaceful world not war ❤️
This is only the second time I’ve heard of this happening and they said it could never happen again because of triple braiding the cable, 43 died in 1976 when this happened, they really need to find a safer way to transport people up a mountain.
I looked that up, a list shows at least 6 fatal cable car accidents, including the one you mentioned. "The deadliest cable car disaster in history that claimed the lives of forty-three people happened on March 9, 1976, in Italy near the Cavalese ski resort. Forty-three people including 15 children and two cable car attendants died. Only one 14-year-old Milanese girl who was on a school trip survived."
"The Dolomites mountain range in Italy was witness to yet another terrifying cable car disaster on February 3, 1998. The disaster happened near the ski resort town of Cavalese and claimed the lives of 20 passengers on board the cable car. The disaster happened when a US Marine Corps aircraft that was flying lower against the regulations cut a cable that was supporting the cable car of the aerial tramway. The cable snap dropped the gondola 260 ft to the ground killing 20 on board. The aircraft crew members were acquitted due to the absence of evidence. Later, it was discovered that one of the crew members had destroyed a tape that contained incriminating evidence pointing to the involvement of the aircraft crew in the disaster."
Oh no!
How far did it drop
You need to change the cable once a few years, even if it is still working. Was that an Italian highway bridge that went down 2 years ago? .
yes, Ponte Morandi was an italian bridge
OMG what is next????
Sad!
Is this the same place as that case where US fighter jet cut their cable off?
No it’s not the same place. You are talking about the Cermis accident, that was happen in the region of Trentino Alto Adige .
No but it is still unknown if the cause is intrinsic or something else cut the traction cable
No, that happened in Trentino-Alto Adige, this happened in Piedmont
That’s so sad..... RIP to the ones that wanted to have a good day and didn’t make it to enjoy.
cable was not spliced back together correctly after maintenance ??
Having such a crash in italy sounds me somewhat weird. Why did they perform its periodic maintenance 🤔
Italy not taking care of their bridges and cable lines. What is going on?
May Allah SWT grant sabr to their families Ameen
Ameen
Is that the same cable which was hit by the American airplane in 1998, and killed 20 some ? 🙏
rip for them.
How many cableway engineers in this thread
Kids were probably saved by landing on the adults
one of the two died
maybe corona makes disrupt checking and maintanance rythim
Corona ..lol , are still people calling COVID this way ? By the way no , I don’t think so especially as the COVID situation is much better in Italy now than in many other countries
may soul rest in peace..
Tragic news, rest in peace to those who died in the accident.
Safety is the main reason why I won't ride a cable car anymore.
we don't have them in Florida. 😕
When you realize that the Roman Empire had better infrastructure than Italy.
Roman Empire had a better brain than your too... Moreover Romans made better structures than your too.
Roman Empire did not have cable cars, nowdays in Italy we have thousands of cable cars. Accidents are very rare. Unfortunately , even if rare, accidents sometimes can happen. The maintenance was done, but something went wrong anyway. You cannot predict everything.
@@carlomarini4255 italy is corrupt mafia goverment.. last time bridge collapse...now this ones... corrupt and convid country
@@zackbro4886 poor you. You are so ignorant. Anyway I hope you enjoy you blissful ignorance.
@Randal R it was 3 February, 1998.
This is so sad
That’s awful 😢
Sad world
RIP to those who died in 2020-2021 due to COVID-19. Don't skip this post without leaving a hurt ♥️
whoever gave a licence to operate this cable car should go to prison
Why is there an ad on this video? So disrespectful
Its no secret that the mainstream media thinks it is ethical to make money from tragic/shocking news, sometimes they manufacture shocking news when none is available.
Is this one incident of what i keep hearing nowadays about Italy's crumbling infrastructure?
Was maintenance not being done!? Should be checked daily. Not good. R.I.P.
What a pity.
Italian engineering! Their bridges, roads, and now cable cars! If you visit, make sure you don't go on ways like that!
It looks like you listed most transportation ways...and by the way, if you are American, your bridges are just as bad
you need to study some recent history baby
好吓人啊，上星期刚去附近的卢加诺湖，还坐了cable car，没想到还有这个风险。。。
If the cable broke wouldn’t that be obvious ? Looks like the cable mount failed.
Rest In Peace
:( so sad.
This is just lazy journalism.. I'm going to call someone to interview that's 12 hours away from the place in question.. to regurgitate what's already been covered in Italian media..🤣🤣
Damn. Terrible.
No cable last forever. Eventually they all snap.
R.I.P :(
Tragic news.
RIP🙏
Oh…my god
Lack of maintenance
We call it ropeway, a cable car is a carriage pulled by a cable laid in the middle of the track.
Many times we never thought of
the state of our souls if we are prepared to face death
and shocking to think of death
sometimes we never thought
it could one day come to us unprepared
🙏 for no one is blameless , out there on the other side
we'll never know how good we are or how bad it would be for us to face the reality
there
we always face the uncertainty we're in
save only by the Grace of God 🙏
Was it an accident or is history correcting itself ?
Oh my god
Sad news
Because the previous car did not experience any anomaly before the accident and the dead included 4 Israelies and Italy is easy to infiltrate by foreign powers, I would investigate sabotage. The way I would investigate it is firstly by events that are close in time to the cable failure. Sabotage that is of a longer time frame such as substances that act on the cable to weaken it are very unlikely due to the timing of it is almost impossible. I would use as a slice of analysis everything from below the earth of the point of failure to the atmosphere and space above it even to satellites within range with laser capabilities that can focus on a cable be it civilian, spy, or military. I would not rule anything out. I would investigate anything people or things on the place above or below it close to the interval of the time of failure of the cable.
even terrorist will not want to kill so many innocent only to kill a few enemy or what but might be , if dont like west too
These things terrify me
Extreme weather ?
Take weight limits seriously guys.
Must have rusted and burst
RIP
No macaroni anymore for me! May their souls rest in peace 🙏
This is like worst fear came true
I've always hated those things..
Just watched rick steves latest alps videos 😳
😮
where is the link so we can watch it too. 😕
Cable car very dangerous no safety for cable car when cable car break don't know it's very risky.
Nope. Thats a nope.
That’s why I never go in them
Bigger chance to die when you walk outside your door than dieing on a cable car while on vacation though.
The winner of Eurovision Songfestival, your people care about their lives rather than that champion.
I always felt cable car i Europe are safe.
car ride on the ground pulled by the cable that is higher , wheels on the car , fell trees to make a dirt track . mechanism to stop the car from rolling down if cable fails, not one big car but many one person cars or for families up to five ppl cars , some would not want to be in a car but just walking up with walking speed cable pull assistance holding a handlebar for that maybe pulling near straigth up , would be an easy walk. or could use bike , did it on a ski lift. . other wire maybe moving that holds a line for safety if big car in air and roof of it opens easy in middle if needed when it falls pps heads push roof open and ppl dangle on the safety line.. about rust. wonder if cable greased internally on assembly will it dry out over time, need solvent then thin floating grease to impregnate it that becomes more solid soon by drying, or is it enough to grease it well on outside how often , automaticy by every trip a little , weekly montly yearly would be too seldom mabe . cover w plastic to stp rain w not in use.for months. .deterioration occurred through two principal mechanisms, namely, external and internal fatigue, which is caused by bending over sheaves or drum windings and crushing, which is caused by multilayer drum spooling..finally a good idea, airbags , but not under the car but inside the car under the people, airbags maybe too complex but just a thick floor made from soft but stiff enough bouncy material and the car would have to be higher or rather lower to accomedate for it . so car would hit hard but ppl wuld not feel that hardness of fall cos then right after ppl would hit floor that has a semi hard plate but moves down when hit, and all should have a helmet. sides roof could be soft build too if hit too. but cable holder on top of car is maybe heavy , might it turn car on way down . so try to design car to be falling straight down without turning , maybe some plates on top part to grab air act as stabeliser fins or tiny parachutes . maybe weigts under floor but thats not so good more tenison and costs of transport or .
If this happened in China.... Peoples: JAJAJAJA BET THAT CABLE CAR MADE FROM CHINA LACK OF QUALITY AND MAINTAINANCE 😂
not really
definitely not plus this was due to improper maintenance
keep crying
Everything is falling apart in Italy.
This is what Italy can do to reinvent themselves. Design and build the most safest and modern bridges and trains and transportation. They have Fancy Sports cars but thats it. Where is the rest ?
How about....reinvent itself...then drop "most" before safest? It might help lend your opinion some credibility even though you have not established your credentials for stating it.
@@danroux4010 and neither you. Anyone can critique. Easy to point your fingers at someone else. It make you feel superior. 🙄
@@JohnSmith-uy7sv "and neither you" what? If you are referring to credentials, I or anyone else doesn't need them to state an easily verifiable fact such as English grammar. And you cannot deny that when stating an opinion, it helps one's credibility if they can string together two words that make sense, especially if you don't back up that opinion with strong credentials. As for you, you are wrong to assume that I pointed out the mistakes in grammar to feel superior. You seem put off that I'm being critical of someone's comment but you seem to be fine with the fact that that person criticized a whole nation without backing up his claim. That's not too bright in my book.
@@danroux4010 That is because you don't know English Grammar and are a big hypocrite. 😁 English is my only language. Yes, you love to critic others comments to feel superior. You have an ego problem. You are not happy with yourself, so you tear others down to feel great. 🙄
Very sad news😮😪😪😪😭
9 and 11 , 911 really