1976 Cavalese cable car crash

When

9 Mar 1976

Kind

Event

Coordinates

46.27° N, 11.48° E

Description

A cable car disaster occurs when a supporting cable breaks in Cavalese, Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.

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1976 deadly cable car crash in Cavalese, Italy

The Cavalese cable car crash is the deadliest cable car crash in history. On 9 March 1976, the steel supporting cable broke as a fully loaded cable car was descending from Mt. Cermis, near the Italian ski resort of Cavalese in the Dolomites, 40 km (25 mi) north-east of Trento.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe du téléphérique de Cavalese dans le Trentin-Haut-Adige”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа канатной дороги в Кавалезе, Италия, наиболее тяжкая авария канатной дороги в истории (43 погибших)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page