[btw, this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever hard]Urban Gondolas: Transit by Cable | 7:14
City Beautiful | 719K subscribers | 209,174 views | April 5, 2018
Posted on 04/17/2025 8:58:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Four people have died after a mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground near Naples in southern Italy, emergency services say.
Another person was "extremely seriously injured" in the crash at Mount Faito and airlifted to hospital, officials said.
Italian media outlets reported that the cabin had been near the top of the mountain when one of the cables supporting it snapped.
A second cabin was also on the line at the time but located near the bottom of the valley - 16 people were rescued from it and winched to safety.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation as officials confirmed the victims were three passengers and the driver of the cable car.
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Italian media reported that the cable car had been travelling over a steep area when the cable snapped. Mount Faito is some 1,100m above sea level.
The mayor of Castellammare di Stabia - where the cable car was located - said it was believed a traction cable had snapped.
"The emergency brake downstream worked but clearly not the one on the cabin that was about to reach the top of the hill," he told Italian media.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Queue The Eiger Sanction.
I’ve traveled on cable cars( OK, Disney land)
As an engineer I always distrusted hanging on a single high wear cable.
Hope it wasn’t another fighter jet kockey showing off (When was that.. about 20 years ago?!).
Yeah been on one. Never again I said 16 years ago. I love me some Terra firma.
No, that was an EA-6B pilot, and it was about 35 years ago in Northern italy.
This movie did nothing to help me trust cable cars.
https://youtu.be/4TkyhZIw85w?si=ANmcQPyi5SHPS06C
I don’t care for them myself.
Classic ‘70’s!
Finiculi, finiculahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Where Eagles Dare!
[btw, this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever hard]Urban Gondolas: Transit by Cable | 7:14
City Beautiful | 719K subscribers | 209,174 views | April 5, 2018
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is probably enough for me.
It was good enough for Mannix and Mission Impossible.
I couldn’t imagine being the maintenance and repair for that stuff.
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