The First Cavalese Cable Car Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- "On the 9th of March, 1976, a cable car operator at an Italian ski resort was riding in an otherwise empty gondola when he caught sight of something worrying out the window..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Background
02:08 - The First Cavalese Cable Car Disaster
11:38 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "42 Skiers Are Killed in Italy When Cable Car Falls 200 Feet" published by The New York Times, March 1976. Link: www.nytimes.com/1976/03/10/ar...
► "March 9, 1976, the first Cermis disaster" by Silvia Morosi and Paolo Rastelli, published by Corriere della Sera, March 2018. Link: pochestorie.corriere.it/2018/...
► "Our colleague Alessandra Piovesana passed away on April 8th. This is how we remember her" by Manuela Stefani, published by CDR Cairo, April 2009. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201304012...
► "The curse of Cermis began 22 years ago" by Postiglione Venanzio, published by Corriere della Sera, February 1998. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201512030...
CORRECTIONS:
► In this video I say that Alpe Cermis is usually open for skiing from April to November. This is the wrong way around: I should have said November to April.
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If you want to learn about the Second Cavalese Cable Car Disaster in 1998, here's the video I made on it: th-cam.com/video/58JuiVrsC8o/w-d-xo.html
The usual story: the poor worker got jailed, but the true culprits, the greedy company owners, were acquitted.
Did you miss the part where it’s mentioned that three other employees received similar sentences, however he didn’t go into any more detail than that. So no, your statement isn’t totally correct. Thought you may want to know so you can listen to that section again toward the end.
Except this didnt happen. Can you not pull your narrative out of your ass where it doesnt apply? Tysm
Money talks and bs gets to walk the rest goes to jail
@@peachespavalko1980 three other EMPLOYEES yes. I doubt it was the owners of the money. But if so, I stand down
Some Dumbasses in the US Air Force: *But WAIT! There's More!*
Jailing the un-trained Sweitzer is like jailing a kid, he didn't knew that he shouldn't have done what he did and the responsibility to put him there is on the shoulders of the cable car operator. They broke every safety protocols but blaming the guy who wasn't aware of the broken safety protocols is stupid.
Why would they jail him? He did nothing wrong! He made a phone call and was told to turn off the safety system! Management and supervisors should have been jailed not him!
How does that make sense?
Is an unlicensed surgeon not responsible for a death on his operating table either?
@@Alex_Was_Taken Lowest IQ take I've seen in a while. A surgeon is a highly skilled job. They do university and years of training. A cable car operator is a regular job, the guy hadn't been trained properly by the company that hired him, and when he asked for assistance with the issue he followed what he was told. I hope you're never on a jury.
@@Alex_Was_Taken analogies dont make good arguments...i know what youre saying
@@Alex_Was_Taken Everyone knows a surgeon must be licensed. It's not said here, but it's entirely possible that this guy didn't even know he wasn't qualified. It sounds just like he applied to a job listing, got hired, minimally trained and set up to fail without his knowledge.
Getting an holiday job, calling some one what to do and then sentenced to jail for doing the best you can. Does not sound right. The compagnie should be sentenced for employing non trained workers.
Italy's legal system is not based on English law. Italy is a place of injustice.
because don't you know the decision makers, the capitalists, the bosses who kill people for money- they are NEVER to blame, for anything...... our society is ruled by psychopaths and monsters. as long as we let it be
@@timrobinson6573ehhhh, you say that now, wait until he gets to the second cable car disaster. You're gonna wish the Italian justice system had a go.
I will say, the Italians do have a particularly strange way of going about air crash investigations. Plane crashes are automatically deemed criminal investigations so cops get a first dibs and the actually expert investigators have to wait on the sidelines, which often means the cops fuck up the crash scenes (move debris and shit) so they have a harder time getting an accurate picture of how the aircraft crashed, not mention finding the black boxes and other important pieces of the plane
you don't jail rich people- that's what poor people are for.
Italy's justice system is odd. For years after Aryton Senna became unlived after he crashed during a F1 race in Italy they kept trying to find someone to charge for manslaughter. More recently, after some people died during a earthquake several geologists were sent to prison for not warning people about the earthquake.
They always punish the untrained operators when it’s management who are actually responsible 😔 glad alessandra survived, her survivors guilt must have been hard to bear ❤
I can only imagine those poor souls were gone to soon, because rim reaper was on that court. 💀
meanwhile two american pilots having a drag race in their fighter planes crashed into cables and send several cars of people from all over the world plummeting to their deaths in Itally-- then they just flew home, landed, deleted all the flight recordings, had a good laugh about it and got to go on with their merry soulless bestial demon lives
But why would you do such a job, where you literally have people's lives in your hands without training? The man literally had to call a collogue for help because he did not know what to do in an emergency. He is just as guilty.
@@nophone93112:19 listen again. Carlos radioed for help. What is presumably a temporary employee kid supposed to do? They are not an engineer and lacked the training, knowledge, and experience to deal with the issue. I highly doubt if you (or anyone) were in his shoes you would not stop the car on your own authority. You would be a good kid because you don't want to lose your job and turn the annoying alarm off like you were told.
@@AlGoYoSuyou don't need to be a rocket scientist to know overriding safety protocols is dangerous.
"Company cuts corners to save money; many people die."
Should be the headline for the majority of these disasters it seems.
Sub-headline: "Front-line workers blamed, punished for management's poor decision-making, negligence"
Funny how management types are always central to and instrumental in their workers' actions when there's credit to be taken for their successes, but are suddenly real hands-off when there's blame to be laid for their failures. How convenient!
I live in california, which many people say is way over regulated. Even our fast food workers/ restaurant staff have to have a food safety certificate (it's a one day training), But I remind people all the time that these regulations are mostly written in blood due to others greed/ Incompetence.
@@kaelananderson9237And they do that at the behest of upepr management who sets the budget.
*cough* Boing
How could Sweitzer possibly be to blame? It's not his fault he wasn't trained properly.
Every employee must disobey an instruction from their employer if it is obviously dangerous, regardless of the consequences for the employee. He failed to do that, presumably for fear of losing the job. Saying 'I was only obeying orders' is not a defence. You do not require training to know that routinely disabling safety mechanisms is dangerous.
Blame always rolls downhill, unfortunately 😒
@@jdb47games
He didn't know it was "obviously dangerous", he was led to believe by the people he was told to trust that it was perfectly normal so he put his faith in them.
because don't you know the decision makers, the capitalists, the bosses who kill people for money- they are NEVER to blame, for anything...... our society is ruled by psychopaths and monsters. as long as we let it be
@@jdb47games He didn't know what was and what was not dangerous. All he knew is what he was told by management. It was management's responsibility to make sure that the operators were properly trained and licensed, and it was management's responsibility to make sure the equipment was maintained. They failed on both counts. The operators NEVER should have been imprisoned for this.
"There had been 43 people in the gondola. 42 people died."
Jesus Christ I can't even imagine the survivor's guilt
Also, the gondola was meant to hold 42, there were 43 on board. 1 extra passenger, 1 survivor. The Irony.
agreed
@@redmage777It was meant to hold 40 people, not 42
Imagine lying there and hearing people around you screaming and saying things out of desperation, saying they want to go home, calling for their loved ones, only for them to go silent moments later.
Poor girl lost her friends, too, and finding out that it was their bodies that protected her from death must have been awful for her. She probably suffered survivors guilt.
I was thinking the same.
I'm finding it hard to comprehend did around half the cable car passengers survive the fall only to then die from being dragged on the floor? The survivor said she saw and heard people crying I'm just trying to understand when.
@@chatteyj Sometimes people can survive an impact without surviving the injuries they have sustained from the impact. It seems that quite a few people died on impact (such as the girl's friends), and others died from injuries they sustained FROM the impact. Remember that this woman also died too, and only lived after being rushed to a hospital and being treated for her injuries.
People do bleed out, you know!
The way she told what happened was very haunting.
Imagine!
From everything I've learned with this channel, I mainly understand that the 70s was a fantastic time to discover why we need safety protocols.
the horrifying part is the wreckage of the cable car was continued to be dragged on the ground after it was smashed from the fall.
That probably contributed to a lot of the casualties, making them fatal.
@@BadWebDiverMost of the passengers would’ve died instantly. Surprised some of them were still conscious after the 70 metre fall, let alone after being crushed by the undercarriage. Other people’s jammed in bodies obviously cushioned some of them a little and shortly delayed their death.
It was _all_ the horrifying part, mate.
Some of the staff on a cable car I rode on once would sit on top of the car in the open air while it climbed the mountain. Absolutely nuts.
Just imagining this gives me chills
Although, if the car did fall, would they be worse off?
I can only imagine why these poor souls were gone, because rim reaper was definitely riding on that curt. 💀
@@peterhoulihan9766break out the ballistics gel dummies filled with red goo and lets find out
If they've been wearing safety gear they could've been inspecting the cables, or stopping at a pylon to climb on it for maintenance
I imagine the guy who packed a few extra kids on the gondola probably had quite a bit of lasting guilt, even if ultimately his decision didn't cause the accident. I know if I was in his position, I'd be hitting myself over the head daily for the rest of my life about how I could've saved a couple of kids if I hadn't ignored the maximum occupancy of the gondola.
and obvi they should have to live with that not their corrupt scumbag soullles incompetent thieving employers
He was probably under orders from his superiors to pack the gondola as full as possible every single time, and counting children as half adults in weight. If they were running the operation faster than recommended, they were probably packing it to the limit every time as well.
I was thinking the exact same thing. It would haunt me knowing I could have saved two or three people's lives if I had of been more strict with the rules.
Learning of the corner-cutting at 02:30 makes pretty much everything from 09:20 onward even less surprising than it already would be.
Somehow this is the worse of the two disasters with the Cavalese Cable Car, and yet somehow the second one is even more infuriating than the first.
Absolutely.
The second one was crazy. Getting flown back to the US immediately and only getting a slap on the wrist for 20 people deleted plus the pilot didn’t seem to give a flying F afterwards. It was definitely an outrageous outcome.
And he only got a slap on the wrist because he got caught destroying the videotape that mostly like proved that the altimeter warning did in fact go off when they started flying too low, unlike what he claimed at his military trial @@DardanellesBy108
@@DardanellesBy108 The victims weren't Americans so they couldn't care less. Didn't he also get a medal? That is customary in the US armed services it seems. The captain of the USS Vincennes which had downed an Iranian passenger liner also got awarded.
@@DardanellesBy108 It's a common theme when Americans are wanted by foreign courts -witness the recent case of the woman who killed a lad on a motorbike in England and scurried back to the US before the police could get to her. They refuse to extradite their citizens but expect others to send their nationals to face the loopy US justice system.
I'm appalled the operator was sentenced to prison, he did as instructed, and was probably unaware qualifications were required.
"I was just following orders" IS not a valid excuse. If he had refused over 40 people would have lived.
@@john1701qbut he didn’t know that. “I was only following orders” is a shit excuse when the person knows the harm they’ll cause ahead of time. Ignorance is not the same as complacence
In Italy there was an earthquake a few decades ago. Afterwards a group of geologists were jailed because they SHOULD have known that an earthquake MIGHT happen in the future. Italy does not take responsibility lightly. Another more famous example is the captain of the Costa Concordia who got a lengthy prison term.
@@john1701qBut what was he supposed to do? He wasn’t trained and didn’t know about the risks. He couldn’t just leave 43 people hanging in mid air, so he asked for instructions and then followed them. Knowing what WE know, it was a bad idea, but how was he supposed to have known that?
@fortunatecookie You can't call ignorance when disabling a safety system. Any person with a working brain would find that strange and dangerous. "It's malfunctioning" more than an excuse would be even MORE reason to worry. I'm surprised to see so many people defending him. The higher-ups certainly deserved heavier punishments, but the operator had his share of responsibility.
Well documented without unnecessary padding; a pleasant voice from the narrator that is easy on the ears; and a perfect length. Perfectly edited.
And punctuation, those A.I. versions? (certainly not voices) are laughable to say the least.
First time here?
Alesandra's description of the people speaking after the fall brought me to tears.
I cannot imagine the mental scars left by seeing and hearing people’s final, terrified desperate pleas for life and comfort. I sincerely hope Alessandra lived a happy life after the accident.
Sadly it seems not, as she died in 2009 from an illness. If she was 14 in 1976 when the accident happened then she was only 47 when she died. Life didn't really deal her a fair hand.
Or on the other hand you could say she did at least get those 33 extra years that her friends in the cable car did not...
My friends and I are watching this video in a cable car ride ourselves in Vietnam. The fact this video is uploaded during our ride was too funny to pass up and we started taking pictures of this video thumbnail with ourselves in a cable car.
Fun aside, we did discuss the contents of the video and are baffled by negligence of the main workers and company laxness.
in Viernam they actually give a shit about public safety though, not just making money by murdering people
@@prismpyre7653 I'd expect so too since these cable cars and attractions have high amount of tourist traffic. Even saw a cable walk the mountains to do his job once on Ba Na Hill. The one I got my picture taken is on Vinpearl and they seem legit.
It's like watching Titanic during a stormy night on board a cruise ship. Or one of many movies involving plane crashes during a flight.
Whoa. Talk about scapegoating. What’s the bet nobody ever even told the guy there was an exam he was supposed to pass?
That young lady's account of the accident is harrowing. Another incident which illustrates that it's human nature to not believe a terrible thing can happen until it does. Routinely switching off safety systems is just a gamble.
The fact that anyone survived that fall insane, even if it is because of grim reasons.
In the early 90's I was a teenage ski bum living in Montana. I was hired to help operate the two gondola lifts at Big Sky Resort. Both were pretty old, but one seemed ancient. In hindsight, It blows me away that we were allowed to operate those things with virtually no real training.
As far as I know, there was never a major failure or injury on either gondola. Pretty sure both of them are long gone now.
Imagine being the only survivor, and hearing the people around you fading into oblivion, one by one, men, women, children, and all.
That was also the case when JAL 123 crashed in Japan, because the authorities just assumed that no one could have survived the crash they didn't bother checking it and left it to burn overnight, of the 509 people on board the plane it was estimated that as many as 40 actually survived the crash but by the time authorities got there 6 hours later all but 4 were dead. Those four had to spend 6 hours in the burning wreckage of a plane during heavy rain listening to people gradually die.
I've been waiting for you to cover this one! I went to a neighbouring village for a skiing trip in high school and we had an Italian guide/instructor. When we visited Cavalese and got on the gondolas up the mountain, he said to us (in not-perfect English) that here the gondolas "fell twice" and one time they were hit, but he couldn't really explain it to us in more detail, so we were confused and thought maybe he was trying to scare us because this gondola was across a bigger valley than the others we'd been on. Sure enough, when I got back to the hotel and looked it up, he wasn't joking. In retrospect he had said he'd lived in the area for a long time, so it's not unlikely he was there or nearby for the 1998 disaster. A great video as always.
I have nightmares about just falling from high places and they are terrifying. This poor girl literally lived that nightmare.
I don’t like high places either, especially high bridges that I avoid whenever possible
Using the safety override became a part of normal operation. This is what is now referred to "Normalization of Deviance", responsible for many tragic occurrences throughout history, many of which have been covered on this channel. Will people never learn?
Ironically, another Schweizer would be involved in the second Cavalese Cable Car Disaster in 1998. On 3 February 1998, a US Marine EA-6B Prowler, piloted by Capt. Richard J. Ashby and navigator Capt. Joseph Schweitzer, albeit a different spelling, practising low altitude manoeuvres, as their training mission came close to ending, the pilot began to joyride and began to fly in controlled airspace restricted to civilians only. Around 15:13 in the afternoon, the Marine Prowler's right wing collided and severed the cable, causing the cable car to fall 80 metres to the valley below, 20 people were killed - none survived the crash, meanwhile, the Prowler made it back to base, where both Ashby and Schweitzer tampered with the evidence that implicated their actions on the disaster. After the disaster, both Marine pilots were court-martialed, but escaped punishment after the first trial, but the second trial implicated them, and were found guilty of obstructing justice and perjury, in addition to involuntary manslaughter, both were sentenced to six months and prison, and given other-than-honourable discharges, leaving the two pilots without future benefits from the Marine Corps. Schweitzer was the one involved in the cover up, he was recording their flight on a camcorder, which caught the moment of the disaster, after they landed at the base, he destroyed the video tape, unlike the Schweizer from the first cable car disaster, this Schweitzer knew what he was doing, and deserved the punishment he received.
There is already video about that on this channel. I actually thought this was a repost until it got further into the story.
He probably went to work for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 🤔
@@VillaFanDan92 Theres a lot of videos about the second disaster
that's not irony, that's coincidence.
I was stationed at Aviano at that time. It was so sad and disgraceful.
The first Fascinating Horror video I watched was that guy who got stuck deep in a cave and had to be left there. Such a terrifying story that the opening music to these videos still makes my blood pressure go up!
I think you meant November to April...not " April to November "...great content! Love the channel! ❤️ ❄️
I was thinking the same thing.
Unless quoting the Southern Hemisphere definition of winter...
11:00 It's called alarm fatigue...they have found it happens in nurses too, they stop hearing patient alarms if they get too used to hearing them.
Or if there’s a particularly prickly patient. Times I’ve been in, I try to be as accommodating as possible & not too demanding
@jamessimms415. I worked as a nurse 25 years before retirement. I worked the midnight shift most of the time. Less employees on the shift. I never got to the point of alarms going off, a regular call bell, IV pumps alarms, emergency alarms from the patients bathrooms, that I ignored them. That's the only times that you're allowed to run, emergency bells going off and someone is hemorrhaging.
Are we going to get a death by bouncy castle episode soon? I think it would be good to raise awareness about the dangers of not securing them in wind etc. Thanks! 👍
I'm from Tasmania we had a bad one about 5 years ago in Devonport all the victims where very young children a very sad day.
There have been *so* many accidents.
@@stuartgmk life imitating art of Chris Lilly's "We Can Be Heroes"
They can be very scary, especially in the UK where it's almost always windy.
What?... Bounce houses have killed people??!!
I shouldn't be surprised, but I mean wtf, for real....
Blaming the operator would leave a stain of unwarranted guilt upon his every waking hour. That was also a great tragedy of this event.
I've always been afraid of those things. Now, I know I'll never ride one again. This incident is absolutely horrible, and was absolutely preventable as well.
Just adding to your nightmare fuel - there are some cable car systems where the cars are the size of phone booths and only hold two standing people, so you can add claustrophobia to the list! I rode on one a few years ago in Italy and it stopped halfway up. The only thing that prevented me from freaking out is that I’d noticed it had also briefly stopped while we were waiting in line to get on, so I figured it would once again only be stopped for a short time. But now that I know the cable car in this accident also stopped due to a safety system which was overridden, I think if it happened again I *would* freak out!
An EA-6B aircraft operated by US Marine squadron VMAQ-2 was the cause of the second gondola accident. The pilot was “hot dogging” way below limits and sliced the cable. The US authorities rushed the US four airmen home and gave them slaps on the wrists as the Italians screamed for them to be handed over. This was back in February 1998.
Yup. He already did a video on that one. I was confused when this video dropped, actually 😂😂😂
First I agree with @peecee1384 that putting this man in prison for any amount of time just added to the tragedy. Having just retired from 25 years in the US Army and seeing more than enough situations like this; where a person needed to be blamed for a terrible situation it brought me to tears this morning. An innocent man who was untrained and a young woman who both had to live with this horror for the rest of their lives is the worst punishment ever.
Growing up in another part of Italy there's a mountain nearby that's a very popular place for school trips and also summer programs that take children to do things while the parents work. They always pressed us into the gondola like sardines. As it's typical for Italy nothing was learned from this incident. In fact there have been more cable car incidents since.
Right now there's a politician who managed to start the process of building an insanely expensive and unnecessary bridge on ground that's completely unsuitable because of earthquakes (among a long list of other problems). All of this a few years after a bridge in Italy collapsed from an earthquake.
Another story very well done. I can imagine the sole survivor having survivor's guilt.
@FascinatingHorror, I wish I knew your first name, so I could write this note properly.
In any case, **I HAVE BEEN WATCHING AND APPRECIATING YOUR REGULAR POSTS, as well as your tongue-in-cheek videos about disaster films on April Fool’s Day and other special occasions for several yrs now.
I especially appreciate the thorough research; excellent scriptwriting; and thoughtfully chosen images for your videos. Truly, truly terrific work!
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@@micheleshively8557 THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Quite kind of you!
"Do cablecars fall often?"
"No, once is enough!"
“During the winter months, usually from around April to around November…”?? Was that simply misspoken, or does Cavalese have one hell-of-a wacky winter schedule?
Sorry Kristian, I know it’s a bit nitpicky, but it made me chuckle and I couldn’t resist.
He properly mean November till April :)
Aye, I did a bit of a double take myself when I heard that :)
Yes, a mistake resulting from rushing their videos. They used to be of much much higher quality.
@@barron204I assure you, those are the months *without* snow.
We have the cold months from May to August down here in Australia! It's getting down to 5°C tonight 😉
I feel for Carlo in the control room and the survivor girl.
> The first
I'm guessing there's another video coming up.
I feel bad for Schweizer, it seems like he was scapegoated here. He could not have reasonably known that his training was insufficient or that the work practices he was taught were dangerous.
We already had the other one. Check the 'Aviation Accidents' Playlist.
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They put him in Jail?!! 😮
Yeah I don’t think the untrained/poorly trained guy should have bared any fault. But definitely management for putting someone without the necessary training in that position.
Italy is not considered a place of justice. Italy's legal system is not based on English law.
meanwhile two american pilots having a drag race in their fighter planes crashed into cables and send several cars of people from all over the world plummeting to their deaths in Itally-- then they just flew home, landed, deleted all the flight recordings, had a good laugh about it and got to go on with their merry soulless bestial demon lives
@@timrobinson6573 As if only countries with English (common) law know justice. And no injustice.
@@Jameson1776
It is illegal to employ someone for that position if he doesn’t have the necessary certifications for that kind of job. And it’s equally illegal to ACCEPT the job if you know that you don’t have the necessary certifications. It’s like to be employed as a truck driver for a company if you don’t have the driver license for driving trucks: both the employer and the employee are at fault. And both were responsable for what happened. You CAN’T accept a job where you could put people at risk if you do it wrong, if you know that you don’t have the competence to do it.
All of the episodes of this channel are top notch.
RIP to all those souls lost and condolences to their families. I cannot imagine the horror Alessandra went through.
Nice work FH.
Of course the one survivor was deeply affected. She lost at least two of her friends according to this recounting (if it was a school trip maybe there were more?). Add onto that injuries that required multiple surgeries and finally, probably PTSD.
Oh WOW!!!
I started following you when you had 30,000 odd subscribers!!
Well done. Well deserved 👏🏼
Good lord, how much faster did they juice the system to be that the friction would sever a 52 millimeter cable?!?! I don't think people realize just how thick and strong that is.
I wonder if the person who hired and scheduled the untrained Sweltzer to work alone, went to jail, too, , and also all of the trained people who made the turning off of the alarm seem inconsequential. Jailing a kid who was scheduled alone, who did what a more trained person told him to do, seems grossly unfair.
just show how corruption and greed is everywhere. instead of jailing the actually people responsible they jail the poor dude.. the town, the judge, the police and whoever else was involved all failed those men, women, and children who died.. the fact the town was okay with this outcome is terrible.
That would indeed be my biggest worry if i was on these things that the cable would snap when it was half way through the air i would prefer to take my chances walking
That disaster really impacted her life, and that last quote before she died really hit us all.
The 3rd cable car disaster in Italy (tho in a different city) always freaks me out bc in the footage u see how close they were to safety before the cables break.
I remember it well, i raised up in Switzerland and it was a shocking news in the TV.
Thank you for the effort of bringing this video to us
❤ this channel, ive binged everything!😊
Winter months April to November? Last time I checked Italy wasn't in the southern hemisphere.
Didn't you know it flies south for the winter.
Speaking about safety systems; the haul rope derail switch at 10:45 is just loosely hanging down from that sheave assembly :D
It’s gut wrenching that the temp cable car operator was jailed (Carlo Sweitzer?) . He should be compensated. To observe the death of those people would be devastating then to be held accountable is disgraceful. I wonder if he had to return home to face the blame and grief of thousands of people in the town. Poor guy …. 😢.
You're my favorite channels when it comes to disastrous events that I didn't know.
Maybe you can cover the Manor Hotel Fire (2001) and the Kentex Slipper Factory Fire (2015). Both had 74 deaths.
I generally do not like it when viewers smarm about the "excellent" presentations, but in this case I am one. Your presentation is perfect: no loud music, no attempts at stupid humor, no irritating sound effects or useless prattle; few sites offer this but they are the best thing on the TH-cam, and yours is certainly one of the best. I have watched every one of your videos and will continue to watch them.
Greed + Complacency = Faliure
Poor Sweitzer! He was blameless!
I suspect Allisandra was downplaying her PTSD in that passage.
Ayyy, new phobia dropped!
And people wonder why I don’t like traveling on anything that goes up into the air
Love listening to these stories ❤❤
Thank you for covering also these Italian accidents. Please make a video on the second Cavalese accident.
There is already one on this channel.
@@Ozymandias1 Thanks! I'll check
All I can't help but seeing is, "The First..."
Some Dumbasses in the US Air Force: *"There is Another."*
It does seem worrying at first, but I gather it's because there are three cable car "runs" to get up the mountain. This happened on the first of those three.
ie. Disaster on the first cable car, not first disaster of many 😉
OK, I stand corrected, seems there were two disasters. 😮
It's because there was another disaster with this cable car system, although from an outside force. (If you haven't seen it, go to his page, go to the 'Aviation Accidents' Playlist, and find 'Cavelese Cable Car Disaster.'
So Carlos was not trained properly, he called his coworkers when something happened and followed their advice, was only working part time here for a couple of months... WHY tf was he sentenced up to 2 years!? What could he have POSSIBLY known to do different, given his circumstances!?
I am pissed! Free my boi Carlos! He did nothing wrong! #FreeCarlos
He was released after nine months. Don’t worry. He is free now.
From April to November it would be the whole summer. I doubt they have much snow there then.
I always pass by Cavalese when going up in the mountains on holiday, i remember the first time i asked my mom why that particular lift followed the terrain instead of going straight up and she told me about the disaster, such a terribile story in such a beautiful, kind land
It's a shame that, other than not ignoring the safety system, if the phone in the gondola had worked maybe the line would've been shut down in time
The cavalise disaster in Italy with the Us military plane cutting the wires will always be a top 10 horror story! Pray I go out peace fully
What are you talking about?
@@LillianFinchIn February 1998 an EA-6B flown by US Marine squadron VMAQ-2 sliced a gondola cable in the same valley sending 20 people to the valley floor. The US sent the US airmen home and gave them very light sentences. It was an outrage that gave the US yet another black eye.
That happened in the same place as this one, that is why they call it the second Cavalese disaster.
Hi, I am a fan of your content. Here are a few ideas for future videos:
- The Costa Concordia
- The Eschede Train Crash.
- The Paddington Rail Disaster
- The Comet air Disaster (BOAC 781)
Thanks for sharing.
Wow never been this early for a upload
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Good video thanks for sharing
Always look forward to a Tuesday morning video by FH
the first tike i rode cable car was in an amusement park. i started crying so hysterically that my family had to get off the cable car in the midway stop. it's been many years since then and i'm not scared of them anymore but glad to know little me's fear wasn't that irrational
Welp - I am Italian and I didn't know about that 😮
Good job as usual. Will you cover the Morandi Bridge disaster? That hit literally close to home 🙄
"...230 feet to the ground below."
"She later described the experience."
I was completely flabbergasted by that.
I find it a bit odd that people say that people who experiences tragedies like this or potentially worse ones end up recovering and living a normal life. You may recover and live a normal life for the most part -- broken bones and bruises will heal, but the memories of the accient will always remain with you for the rest of your life. This I would think, as a child / young adult would be something someone would remember for the rest of your life, especially considering the fact that all of her friends (and everyone else) in that cable car died.
Awesome video! We Ty !
that poor little girl, i cant imagine how it must have felt to be the only one left
A similar case of criminal negligence like in the cable car accident of Stresa-Mottarone 2021 (blocking the safety brake in the car-carriage with a clamp).
YOUR BACK! :D
These disasters made me legit afraid of cable cars.
I believe you said "During the winter months, usually from around April to around November..." Great video as usual!
“She had been protected from fatal injury by the bodies of her friends and fellow passengers surrounding her.”
Dear God. That poor woman probably had survivors guilt for a long time.
I was trying to find ur channel cuz i watched the Wedding Floor collapse video a while ago, could only see News Channels, but I found it!
Thank you.
Gods. That last quote is haunting.
This is 50 years ago, but it is fascinating that (unlike the Anglo, Nordic and Benelux countries, which have moved to no-fault accident investigation outside of gross negligence by people who should know what they're doing), Italy still absolutely bases its disaster response on throwing the most on-the-ground people in jail. Third world behaviour.
The contrast between this and the later airplane strike incident is bizarre.
Thanks!!
Gondolas scare the sh*t out of me, and ski lifts
Hearing about this gondola disaster reminds me of the Vail, Colorado USA Gondola accident that happened around the same period.
Cavalese, Australia, with the winter months from April to November. Ah, good times.