Who will be eaten first? Bizarrely the fire was the result of a stunt for a hidden camera TV show that went disastrously wrong. "We can't wait for weeks," he said. Service. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. It was the third big catastrophe in the French Alps this year. Cheng said of Monday night's incident: "This is the most serious incident because it involves a fallen cable car. On a stormy April afternoon in 1978, the Cable Car at Squaw Valley came off of one of its cables, dropped 75 feet and then bounced back up, colliding with a cable which sheared through the car. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. China in row with US over Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau. He added that the incident was the worst cable car catastrophe in France's history. "No one could have survived it and no one did. Share this story! VideoWho really decides the US election? The passengers had to force their way out of the cab and climb on to another cable car to escape the blaze. All rights reserved. Cable caught in street sweeper causes bizarre car accident. Howard Young, the legislator representing Hong Kong's tourism industry, said he believed the accident would deliver a "serious blow" to the former British colony's reputation as a tourist destination. • March 9, 1976 Forty-two people die in Cavalese in world's worst cable-car disaster. However, the video is not what is being claimed. You may see frantic videos on social media purporting to show 17 people being burned alive in a shocking cable car accident in China. All rights reserved. The French association of cable car operators said the accident seemed to have been caused by the cabin becoming unhooked from the cable rather than by the cable itself snapping. He was taken up on the cable cars while the show’s host, Sharif, asked him uncomfortable questions. Legal Statement. Trump poses without mask on White House return, Kyrgyz election results annulled after protests. Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you, Bus catches fire & explodes in Rome as horrified passengers look on (VIDEOS, PHOTOS), Dems spar with Trump over Mueller probe, roast federal judge who questioned it, Plain respect or ‘Orwellian nonsense’? Others said they were too upset to speak. In China, a cable got snarled in the rotating broom of a street sweeper. Do you need Jesus to win the US election? A huge avalanche swept 23 chalets away in two small hamlets near the ski resort of Chamonix in February, killing 12 people. But what actually happened is possibly even more bizarre. A cable car ride in Hong Kong that carries thousands of tourists a day was suspended after a cabin broke free and plunged 50m to the ground. Do you need Jesus to win the US election? There were bodies scattered over a big area and there was almost nothing left of the cabin itself. Five people die. Market data provided by Factset. When he stands… READ THE REST, An Austrian visitor to the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, Italy posed for a selfie while sitting on an original plaster cast sculpture created in 1804 by Antonio Canova. The incident came just a week after the attraction was closed for four days for maintenance checks. If you thought your days dropping quarters into Donkey Kong in an arcade for logging hour after hour of Super Mario 64 on the P2 were the golden ages of video gaming, we hate to break it to you…but today is the true golden age. Andrew Cheng, head of the Hong Kong Legislative Council's transport panel, called on Tuesday for the management team of the cable car service to be sacked and replaced. December 8, 1970 Cable car falls between Bolzano and Merano in Italian Dolomites. China; India; Kashmir cable car accident: At least seven people killed. Follow Us Twitter / Facebook / RSS. In that instance it was being claimed that the fire was on the cable cars on Nanwan Monkey Island, a sanctuary for macaque monkeys in southern China, around 1,600km (1,000 miles) away from Zhangjiajie. or redistributed. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. In fact, after job losses in June and July, August saw IT hiring up .4 percent, swelling the ranks of… READ THE REST, Say what you will about its origins or its content, but there's an inescapable fact about TikTok: it has become a social media success of galactic proportions. Technical problems delayed its original opening for two months. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Outside town hall, where counsellors and psychologists were comforting relatives, many of the village's 500 residents gathered silently in the hot sunshine. designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated In 1976, a steel cable snapped on a cable car at the ski resort of Cavalese, Italy, killing 42 people, including 15 children. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Via The Art Newspaper The tourist, identified as Austrian by the… READ THE REST, The financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit many industries hard. An article on Chinese news website The Paper says that it was circulating on Chinese social media platform WeChat back in February 2017. Four people we killed and thirty-one were injured. Scores of people are reported to be trapped in other cable cars amid high winds. 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A rescue operation continues. • December 8, 1970 Cable car falls between Bolzano and Merano in Italian Dolomites. The street sweeper truck on the right went over it and wound up the cable in the rotating cleaner. BERLIN – Police say one man has been killed and six other people injured in an accident during regular maintenance work on a mountain cable car line in central Switzerland. The gentleman managed to snap off two of the figure's toes before making a hasty exit. Halfway through the journey, the cable car was stopped and Masou was told that it had broken down due to a power cut, Ma’an reports. Boing Boing uses cookies and analytics trackers, and is supported by advertising, merchandise Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. A search was launched to retrieve the wreckage and make sure no walkers or fishermen were struck by the two-ton compartment. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. This website uses cookies. Don’t worry, nobody has died. Five people die. Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Privacy Policy. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. image caption The cable … "The cable car fell. Of course there could be people speaking Arabic in China, but it’s not what one would expect from the scene of a fire in Zhangjiajie, China. The video shows a suspended cable car entirely engulfed in flames and spouting a huge column of black smoke. The deaths of 21 people in a cable car accident in Saint-Etienne en Devoluy has highlighted the issue of safety in the perilous conditions in which the cars operate. "If this is what happened it begs the question as to why the cable car operations weren't suspended in high winds. Video, Anti-virus creator John McAfee arrested over tax evasion charges, Trump Covid: President downplays virus on leaving hospital, Black hole breakthroughs win Nobel physics prize, Sophie Pétronin: Hopes rise for release of French hostage in Mali, Coronavirus: Europe experiencing 'pandemic fatigue'.