Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash

When

23 May 2021

Kind

Event

Coordinates

45.88° N, 8.46° E

Description

A cable car in Mottarone, Piedmont falls near the summit, killing at least 12 people. Two children, aged 5 and 9, are taken to a hospital in Turin.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash.

2021 cable car disaster in Piedmont, Italy

On 23 May 2021, an aerial tram on the Stresa–Alpino–Mottarone Cable Car crashed to the ground after a 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.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Обрушение канатной дороги на горе Моттароне в Италии, в результате которого погибло 14 человек;”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page