Cavalese cable car disaster

When

3 Feb 1998

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

46.26° N, 11.51° E

Description

1998 accident where a US military airplane cut the cable of an aerial tramway

Deaths

20

1998 incident involving a US Marine Corps aircraft and a cable car in Italy

The Cavalese cable car crash, also known as Strage del Cermis, occurred on 3 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people were killed when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, flying too low and too fast, against regulations, cut a cable supporting a cable car of an aerial lift.

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