List of cable car accidents

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List of cable car incidents and cable car accidents (both from aerial and funicular railways ). The list does not claim to be complete.

1930-1949

November 26, 1932
Schauinslandbahn - Germany - Due to a serious operating error by a conductor, only one pull rope was coupled to the train. As a result, the cabin got over the fallen pulling rope and was levered by the carrying rope shortly before the valley station. The cabin fell 13 meters down, killing three people (including the conductor). After extensive investigations, which confirmed the basic safety of the railway, operations could be resumed in January 1933.

1950-1959

April 2, 1956
Plabutsch chairlift - Austria - After the chairlift was switched off, it started moving again and reached almost five times its normal speed. 1 dead, 7 injured.
August 29, 1959
Santos - São Paulo (State) - Brazil, in the Brazilian port city of Santos, the cabin of a cable car tore down and fell down a steep mountain slope. 31 dead.

1960-1969

August 15, 1960
Campania - Italy, four dead in a cabin crash between Castella Mare di Stabia and Monte Faito near Naples in Italy.
August 29, 1961
Aiguille du Midi - France, a military machine cut the pulling rope of the small cable car Vallée Blanche at the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont Blanc massif while flying low : 3 cabins fell about 150 m deep, six dead.
December 25, 1965
Puy de Sancy - France, when a gondola stopped due to a power failure, an outer wall of the cable car at Puy de Sancy in central France broke. Seventeen people fell, seven of whom were killed.
July 9, 1966
Aiguille du Midi - France, a cable break in a cable car on the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont-Blanc massif crashed three gondolas: four dead.

1970-1979

December 6, 1970
Burgstall (South Tyrol) - Italy, five dead in the crash of the gondola of a material train in Burgstall near Meran in South Tyrol.
July 12, 1972
Bettmeralp - Switzerland, 12 dead in a cabin crash in Betten-Bettmeralp in Switzerland.
October 26, 1972
Les Deux-Alpes - Oisans - France, during a test drive in Les Deux-Alpes in France, two cabins collided: nine dead.
July 9, 1974
Bergen - Norway, Ulriksbanen cabin crash , 9 dead.
March 9, 1976
Cavalese - Italy, in the Italian Dolomite town of Cavalese, a cabin crashed after a rope broke: 42 dead.
March 26, 1976
Vail - Colorado - USA, several cabins of a small gondola lift crashed as a result of damage to the suspension cable. Four dead, five seriously injured.
April 15, 1978
Squaw Valley - California - USA, during a hurricane, two cables of a cable car were knocked out of the top cable car pillar. One of the ropes broke through the roof of the cabin: four dead, 22 injured.

1980-1989

December 28, 1981
Tarsch im Vinschgau - South Tyrol - Italy, two dead and 23 injured as a result of the failure of all three brakes on a chairlift.
February 13, 1983
Aosta Valley - Aosta - Italy, in the collision of two cabins in the Italian Aosta Valley, eleven people were killed.
January 29, 1983
Sentosa - Singapore, eight people died when a cabin crashed into the sea between Singapore and Sentosa Island.
March 1, 1987
Luz Ardiden - France, six dead near Luz Ardiden in the French Pyrenees when several lift chairs crash.
July 27, 1987
Passo Falzarego - Italy, five slightly injured after an Italian military jet cut the cable of the Lagazuoi cable car .
January 13, 1989
Oisans - France, eight people died during test runs of the French cable car Vaujany in the ski area of ​​Alpe d'Huez.

1990-1999

June 1, 1990
Tbilisi - Georgia, 19 dead after cable break in Tbilisi, Georgia.
November 24, 1991
Mérida - Venezuela, cable car accident at the longest and highest cable car in the world in Merida / Venezuela ( Meridabahn ). Rope breakage at the last mast on the 4th section (3071 m distance, 722 m difference in altitude) - two dead.
January 29, 1992
Nassfeld - Carinthia - Austria, four dead in a chairlift accident in Nassfeld, Austria
December 19, 1993
A 47-year-old was killed in a collision between two gondolas on the Hochzeiger in the Tyrolean Pitztal. A commission of inquiry attributed the accident to human error.
1995
Mutters - Tyrol - Austria, crash of a gondola of the Muttereralm cable car: no personal injury
December 14, 1996
Riederalp - Wallis - Switzerland, broken axis in the valley station of the Moosfluh gondola lift: one dead and 18 injured.
February 3, 1998
Cavalese - Italy, a US military aircraft cut the suspension cable of a cable car in Cavalese while flying low. 20 people were killed.
July 1, 1999
France, 20 dead from the crash of a closed cable car at the Bure observatory in the French Alps
December 26, 1999
During Hurricane Lothar , a tree fell on the cable of the Crans-Cry d'Err gondola lift in the Crans-Montana - Aminona ski area . Two people were killed and three were seriously injured.

2000-2009

July 6, 2000
Oberstdorf - Germany, at the entrance, a fully occupied cabin of the Nebelhornbahn crashed into the middle station at 2 m / s instead of the normal 0.3 m / s: 23 injured
November 11, 2000
Kaprun , Kitzsteinhorn - Salzburg - Austria, 155 people died in a fire in the Kaprun glacier lift .
January 19, 2003
Pavagadh Ropeway, 45 km from Vadodara , Panchmahal district, Gujarat state , India : Three gondolas of the pilgrim's cable car to Mahakali Temple crashed when the rope jumped from the pulley; six people were killed and some injured.
October 19, 2003
Darjeeling , India: When three gondolas on the Darjeeling Ropeway crashed , four people were fatally and eleven others were seriously injured.
April 2, 2004
Yerevan , Armenia: The carriage of a train cabin derailed and fell 15 meters, causing the pulling rope to break and a second cabin to collide with the valley station. Several people were injured and five were killed.
October 9, 2004
Gmunden - Austria, crash of a gondola of the Grünberg cable car : several injured.
November 12, 2004
Tignes - Savoy - France, the drive of the aerial tramway to Grande Motte derailed due to strong cross winds. 90 passengers were recovered unharmed.
November 14, 2004
Sölden (Ötztal) - Tyrol - Austria, the control rope of the Schwarze-Schneid-Bahn 2 got into the suspension cable due to wind-generated natural vibrations, got caught there and stopped the train. When the emergency drive was started up without a prior visual inspection, the control cable tore and brought an empty nacelle to crash. At minus 15 degrees Celsius, the 115 passengers were rescued in eight hours.
December 29, 2004
Mürren - Bernese Oberland - Switzerland, on one of the two suspension ropes of the Schilthorn cable car , all the ropes of the rope jacket have torn, the rope core remained intact. The train could be stopped before passing the damaged area. All 53 passengers were recovered unharmed. The cause was found to be an improper shifting of the suspension cable in 1979, the damage of which was not discovered using the test methods that had been customary to date.
February 26, 2005
Axamer Lizum - Tyrol - Austria, a four-seater chair of the Schönbodenbahn fell to the ground due to a blocked pulley.
September 5, 2005
Sölden (Ötztal) - Tyrol - Austria, a helicopter lost a concrete bucket that hit the Schwarze-Schneid-Bahn 1 on the rope. The vibrations caused one gondola to crash, and two more to tear the panes out of their anchoring. As a result of this accident nine people were killed and six other people were injured, some seriously.
November 17, 2005
Stubai Glacier - Tyrol - Austria, one chair of the Rotadlbahn came loose and slipped onto another. One seriously injured and three slightly injured.
July 13, 2006
Fort William (Highland) , Scotland : A cable car gondola up the Aonach Mòr crashed when another gondola slid back on the cable. Five people were seriously injured.
May 14, 2006
Crash of a cabin of the Bocksberg cable car . No personal injury. Closing of operations until December 15, 2006
May 24, 2007
Zillertal , Mayrhofen - Tyrol - Austria, a mountain gondola of the Penkenbahn crashed in the municipality of Finkenberg, a worker died and two workers were seriously injured.
June 11, 2007
Ngong Ping 360 , Hong Kong During a test drive (brake test) after closing time, an unoccupied gondola fell over 50 m near the Tung Chung Bus Terminal. There was no personal injury. The operation of the railway had to be stopped for six months.
December 16, 2008
Blackcomb / Whistler Mountain - British Columbia - Canada , collapse of a support, crash of gondolas, 12 injured.
January 3, 2008
Grindelwald , Kleine Scheidegg - Bernese Oberland - Switzerland, the cable of the “Fallboden” chairlift derailed during a foehn storm. One person died and three others were injured.
March 22, 2008
Sestriere , Pragelato - Piedmont - Italy, the cable car car raced into the station without braking. 17 injured.

2010-2019

March 24, 2010
A gondola of the Brülisau-Hohen Kasten cable car races unchecked into the valley station during an inspection run. The cabin was empty. The deputy operations manager in the valley station was seriously injured and had to be flown to the hospital by rescue helicopter. The cabin and the valley station are badly damaged. The reason was an operator error in the system.
December 27, 2010
In the US state of Maine , several winter sports enthusiasts were thrown from a chairlift when the rope jumped from the pulleys. 6 or 8 people were injured. According to another source, the accident occurred at the Spillway East double chairlift on Sugerloaf Mountain, Franklin County, Maine on December 28, 2010 and injured 8 passengers.
August 12, 2011
In Schwangau , Bavaria : After an interruption due to the Einfluges a glider into the ropes of Tegelbergbahn 30 passengers from one of the gondolas had to be lowered from about 50 meters high; 19 people in the other gondola could only be rescued by helicopter the following day.
December 7, 2014
At the start of operations on the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol , an unoccupied gondola of the EUB Gamsgarten II detached itself from the hoisting rope due to a faulty coupling due to an incorrectly set dome locking rail and fell below the mountain station; three more gondolas were damaged. People were not harmed. According to a statement by the BMVIT , the instructions in the operating regulations regarding what to do if the faulty clutch warning were triggered were not followed.
4th January 2015
From the uphill cabin of the Schlossalmbahn II near Bad Hofgastein in Austria , 80 people had to be roped down 30 m after a pulling rope overturned due to a gust of wind, after it was not possible to restart the cableway again. Nobody was hurt.
September 8, 2016
On the small gondola lift Vallée Blanche in France , a strong gust of wind caused the hauling rope to overturn over the supporting rope. 110 people had to be rescued, partly by helicopter and partly by abseiling. 33 of them could not be saved until the next morning. There were no injuries.
January 3, 2018
As a result of an unexpectedly strong gust of wind, a gondola of the Kitzbüheler Hornbahn in Austria got wedged at the entrance to the middle station. The 24 people still trapped in the gondolas were rescued by the rescue organizations in about two hours, there were no injuries to complain about, but there was considerable damage to property.
March 16, 2018
In the holiday resort of Gudauri in Georgia, a chairlift built by the Vorarlberg company Doppelmayr got out of control due to human error and reversed at unusually high speed. The winter sports enthusiasts tried to save themselves by jumping from the lift while the chairs wedged one after the other in the station, injuring around a dozen people.
September 12, 2018
In the course of an emergency exercise at the Zugspitze , a chain on the lifting system breaks and the rescue cage races unbraked into the unoccupied cabin.
October 30, 2018
One of the two cabins of the Staubernbahn jumped out of the suspension cable and fell 12 meters to the ground. The cabin was not manned, so no one was injured. Eight passengers from the opposite cabin had to be evacuated.
December 9, 2018
In a heavy storm, a Wimbachexpress gondola gets stuck on support 6 in the Hochfügen-Hochzillertal ski area . Before the cable car comes to a standstill, four more cabins collide with the first and become wedged. Passenger operations on the railway had already been stopped due to the wind alarm, and the empty gondolas were already on their way to the garage. No injuries.

From 2020

February 6, 2020
After closing time at 4 p.m., at 10 p.m. there will be a special descent with only three armchairs in the upper section of the Stoos- Fronalpstock SZ chairlift for the participants of a celebration in the summit restaurant. The middle four-seater collides with the tensioned winch rope of a snowcat and falls about 10 m from the hoisting rope. Two people are life-threatening and two are seriously injured. Six people in the other armchairs are also rescued by helicopter within two hours.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report in The New York Times August 30, 1961. Only headlines available without subscription. (English)
  2. ↑ Bulletin 6/2010 of the Burgstall municipality, memory of the accident on the 40th anniversary, page 38 PDF, 8.6 MB, accessed on May 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Article in Spiegel v. March 15, 1976 about the accidents in Bettmeralp and Cavalese
  4. ↑ The Second Life of Squaw Valley - Report in Time Online , accessed May 19, 2012
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel: Lift accident - Like flail from January 4, 1982
  6. ↑ a b [1] Chronicle of cable car accidents in Spiegel Online v. November 11, 2000
  7. ↑ Un aereo contro la la funivia. In: repubblica.it. July 28, 1987, accessed June 11, 2018 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Falk Krentzlin: How do you travel in Tbilisi? (No longer available online.) In: Caucasian Post No. 31. Archived from the original ; accessed on March 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Report in Diario de los Andes on the Méridabahn from August 14, 2008 (Spanish language)
  10. ↑ [2]
  11. ↑ Human error reason for gondola crash. In: tirol.orf.at. December 9, 2014, accessed December 4, 2018 .
  12. ↑ a b c Article on Tages-Anzeiger online from January 3, 2008
  13. ↑ Cable car accident at the Bure Observatory - article in welt-online from July 2, 1999
  14. ↑ Report in The Hindu of January 20, 2003 (accessed May 20, 2012)
  15. ↑ Report in the Times of India, January 21, 2003
  16. ^ Report in The Hindu of October 20, 2003 (accessed on May 19, 2012)
  17. ↑ Report on news.at about the accident at the Grünbergseilbahn October 19, 2004
  18. ↑ Report on the derailment of the nacelle in Tignes in Le Nouvel Observateur online from November 15, 2004 (French)
  19. ↑ Cable car incident in Sölden: employee convicted - negligent public endangerment. news.at, January 27, 2006, accessed November 4, 2012 .
  20. ^ Acquittal after gondola crash ORF Tirol, March 5, 2008, accessed on November 4, 2012.
  21. ↑ Announcement from the Association for the Technical Management of Swiss Cableways (VTK) on the near-rope break on December 29, 2004  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 268 kB, accessed on May 19, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vtk-uct.ch  
  22. ↑ Report by the Axams mountain rescue service on the operation on February 26, 2005 ( memento of the original from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergrettung-axams.at
  23. ↑ Report in orf-tirol online
  24. ^ Pilot to blame for the accident in Sölden ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Tiroler Tageszeitung from March 18, 2010, accessed on November 20, 2012.
  25. ↑ Reinhard Fellner: Insufficient care: Sölden is liable for misfortunes ( memento from February 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Tiroler Tageszeitung from July 29, 2011, accessed on November 20, 2012.
  26. ↑ Report on n-tv about the cable car accident on the Stubai Glacier v. November 17, 2005
  27. ↑ Report on BBC News online from July 13, 2006 (English)
  28. ^ Report on orf-online about the accident on the Penkenbahn on May 24, 2007
  29. ↑ Report in The Standard Hong Kong ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English language, accessed May 21, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thestandard.com.hk
  30. ↑ Report on the operational downtimes at topnews.in (English, accessed on May 21, 2012)
  31. ↑ Report on CTV-British Columbia News of December 17, 2008 (English)
  32. ↑ NZZ online from January 3, 2008
  33. ↑ The daily newspaper "La Repubblica" reported on June 28, 2011 about the court ruling and the compensation of the injured (Italian)
  34. ↑ "Injured in a chairlift accident" Article on USA today , December 28, 2010
  35. ↑ Sugarloaf (ski area) de.qwe.wiki, accessed July 12, 2020.
  36. ↑ Human failure, reason for gondola crash , report on ORF-online Tirol , accessed on December 9, 2014
  37. ↑ 80 skiers roped down from the gondola , report on ORF-Online Salzburg , accessed on January 4, 2015
  38. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Sturm Burglind: Hornbahn in Kitzbühel remains out of service | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . ( tt.com [accessed March 9, 2020]).
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  41. ^ "After a cable car accident: Damaged Zugspitz gondola arrives in the valley" Report on the rescue in Münchner Merkur, accessed on December 10, 2018.
  42. ↑ "Cable car falls 12 meters to the ground" 20min.ch, accessed on November 3, 2018. - Report on the crash.
  43. ↑ "Gondola Drama! Cable car cabins get out of control in a storm - then there is a big bang " - title now: Cause research: Gondola crash in Zillertal: Cable car company surprises with statement Münchner Merkur, update December 12, 2018, updated January 12, 2020, for the first time accessed on December 10, 2018.
  44. ↑ Nacelle collision was an "unusual coincidence" orf.at, December 10, 2018, accessed July 12, 2020.
  45. ↑ Armchair fell due to rope from snow groomer from 20min.ch, February 7, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020.