Cable car drops hundred of feet in Italy, 13 dead

[AUS-97HORN 11895]

only 2 children survive 

 

Cable snaps- and 13 are dead

[Lhorn 5045]

Amazing anyone could have survived. 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Stuff of nightmares. 

My heart goes out to those people.

[EuroHorn 3277]

Reminds me of this one in Italy back in 1998

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998)

 

[Hate 20167]

I can't imagine the terror those people must have experienced during that fall. 

[Parliament 14416]

49 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

only 2 children survive 

 

Cable snaps- and 13 are dead

What killed them?

[Michael Knight 13098]

1 minute ago, Parliament said:

What killed them?

The fall probably killed them

[futureman 22566]

where did you see hundreds of feet? this isn’t hundreds of feet.

[futureman 22566]

3 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

the impact. 

[workswithseed 2135]

3 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

I think it's the landing, not the fall that kills ya.

[atomheartbevo 90149]

And people want these in Austin

 

[Hate 20167]

where did you see hundreds of feet? this isn’t hundreds of feet.

The news story reported it was about 300 feet where they fell.

[futureman 22566]

4 minutes ago, Hate said:

The news story reported it was about 300 feet where they fell.

which story? the one linked says it failed about 300m from the top of the mountain. but the cable itself looked to be at about the top of the tree line in the video and in pictures. nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

[Blotto 23757]

13 minutes ago, futureman said:

which story? the one linked says it failed about 300m from the top of the mountain. but the cable itself looked to be at about the top of the tree line in the video and in pictures. nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

Local mayor Marcella Severino told local media the accident is believed to have been caused by one of the cables breaking. She said the lift plunged some 65ft and rolled several times down the slopes before it was stopped by trees, while hikers said they had heard a loud hiss just before the crash.

[Hate 20167]

Yeah, I thought I had seen a story earlier (not the linked story) that said 300 feet.  I've seen several now that says is was between 50-65 feet.  That's about a 2 second free fall.  Hopefully it was quick enough so those people didn't have time to think.

 

 

[Nicole44 22198]

25 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And people want these in Austin

 

Hmmm. I wouldn’t mind one running from RR to downtown. Just not over the main road ways like that. Lol. Drunk asses in cable cars. What could go wrong? Imagine being employee tasked with getting people out and in. 
 

 

[InkaUtexas 26431]

7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Hmmm. I wouldn’t mind one running from RR to downtown. Just not over the main road ways like that. Lol. Drunk asses in cable cars. What could go wrong? Imagine being employee tasked with getting people out and in. 
 

 

And cleaning them after a Saturday night. Well we could hire the homeless right? 

[Pato del Muerto 52997]

[Your Mom 4887]

Any low-flying American aircraft in the area?

[jimmyjazz 46535]

20 meters . . . roughly 2 seconds.  I seriously doubt many of those killed had even the slightest idea of what was happening, thank goodness.

[clapclapclap 9000]

1 hour ago, Michael Knight said:

The fall probably killed them

Nope, Italy is in the northern hemisphere.

[HornOnTheBayou 8996]

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

And cleaning them after a Saturday night. Well we could hire the homeless right? 

Wait, I thought we were putting the homeless in the gondolas?

[InkaUtexas 26431]

4 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Wait, I thought we were putting the homeless in the gondolas?

They can drive em and clean em. Get overtime this way. 

[WBT 20783]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

20 meters . . . roughly 2 seconds.  I seriously doubt many of those killed had even the slightest idea of what was happening, thank goodness.

You don't think you'd realize within 2 seconds that you were in freefall?

[Deej 77313]

2 hours ago, futureman said:

nobody is surviving a 300 foot fall in a cable car. 

 

[jimmyjazz 46535]

18 minutes ago, WBT said:

You don't think you'd realize within 2 seconds that you were in freefall?

Oh, I think I'd realize it, but I'd probably be dead before the terror set in.

[0xdeadbeef 1654]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And people want these in Austin

 

Will that put our town on the map?

[atomheartbevo 90149]

9 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

If we ever when we build that thing, oh yeah, Austin will make headlines.

[RexWilson 1470]

It was probably the rolling that killed them. Snapped necks and all.

[Deej 77313]

Fuck anything involving heights.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8921]

The fall probably killed them

I thought it was the sudden stop

[Deej 77313]

7 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

I thought it was the sudden stop

It was COVID. 

[NorthLoop 14308]

44 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

Yessir. Right next to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.

[Homercles 10206]

46 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

Damnit SA beat me to it.  

Edited May 23, 2021 by Homercles

[Deej 77313]

Just now, Homercles said:

It worked for Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.  

[Poolflood 845]

13 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

I thought it was the sudden stop

Technical term is "rapid deceleration trauma"

[Blotto 23757]

1 hour ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

Will that put our town on the map?

 Probably the greatest... Aw, it's not for you. It's more of a Shelbyville Pflugerville idea.

[atomheartbevo 90149]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Fuck anything involving heights.

1234.  Done the skydiving thing when I was younger, had a blast, never bothered me. Flying, doesn't bother me.

But have me go up to the top of an actual high-rise and walk over to a window and look out...

[ztejas 43787]

I can only take so many ethnic disasters in one day. 

What's next, 34 Frenchmen die doing some fruity French shit?

[Hmbre97 6333]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

1234.  Done the skydiving thing when I was younger, had a blast, never bothered me. Flying, doesn't bother me.

But have me go up to the top of an actual high-rise and walk over to a window and look out...

 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

[NorthLoop 14308]

8 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

Yep same with me. Even weirder is that as a kid I would climb 30 feet up an oak tree no problem. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

21 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

 Same here except skydiving. Fuck that too. If I encounter anything remotely high, my balls retract into my stomach but oddly enough, I'm cool with airplanes.

Ever fly in a Chinese glass-bottom airplane?

[WhatTheBuck 28854]

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

 

[Bevo 13661]

20 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Ever fly in a Chinese glass-bottom airplane?

With areas that look like broken glass and piped in cracking sounds? Nope

But I flew Aeroflot from Moscow to Novosibirsk. The plane looked like shit with no carpeting and upholstery and everything creaked and with all the passengers smoking it was hard to tell if the haze was from the engines or the passengers.

I have been in a large float plane where the engines shut off mid-flight. Yeah, that wasn't fun whether you are scared of flying or not.

[atomheartbevo 90149]

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

I try to forget it. There at about the 3:50 mark, when he gets to the small ladder my balls fully retract.

I don't care how deep the tower's base is, don't care how many supporting cables/wires are coming off of that tower to keep it upright.  There is no way I could trust that tiny little ladder.

[WhatTheBuck 28854]

I get squeamish watching Where Eagles Dare.

[UT_OB1 2229]

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Remember this video? It’s still tough to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough. I’d rather work in a sewer.

 

I might be having a panic attack. Am I correctly seeing that they are only “tied off” (if that’s what you call slipping the clip over a thin rod) when they take breaks and at the very top?  How many people die a year climbing that thing?

[WhatTheBuck 28854]

27 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

I might be having a panic attack. Am I correctly seeing that they are only “tied off” (if that’s what you call slipping the clip over a thin rod) when they take breaks and at the very top?  How many people die a year climbing that thing?

That’s correct. I don’t know how many people die doing that job but if I had it then I would definitely account for one. 

[Wally Pryor 5316]

The cables on these outside of Vancouver have been cut, twice, over the last 2 years.    No one was hurt as the cars were empty but they did go tumbling down. 

Environmentalists not happy with the cars and their placement.   

 

[bschoolprof 6281]

I can't watch more than 30 seconds of that tower climbing video.  It literally makes me nauseous.