If you want to learn about the Second Cavalese Cable Car Disaster in 1998, here's the video I made on it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2mtppyMp9h2btE
@TommyCrosby6 ай бұрын
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.
@mileshigh13216 ай бұрын
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!
@Alex_Was_Taken6 ай бұрын
How does that make sense? Is an unlicensed surgeon not responsible for a death on his operating table either?
@proxcess49466 ай бұрын
@@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.
@MikeHunt-fo3ow6 ай бұрын
@@Alex_Was_Taken analogies dont make good arguments...i know what youre saying
@leandervr6 ай бұрын
@@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.
@oniondeluxe99426 ай бұрын
The usual story: the poor worker got jailed, but the true culprits, the greedy company owners, were acquitted.
@peachespavalko19806 ай бұрын
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.
@chaminadecrew796 ай бұрын
Except this didnt happen. Can you not pull your narrative out of your ass where it doesnt apply? Tysm
@bradsanders4076 ай бұрын
Money talks and bs gets to walk the rest goes to jail
@oniondeluxe99426 ай бұрын
@@peachespavalko1980 three other EMPLOYEES yes. I doubt it was the owners of the money. But if so, I stand down
@Thephillips-dj1po6 ай бұрын
Some Dumbasses in the US Air Force: *But WAIT! There's More!*
@KhrysKrypto6 ай бұрын
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.
@serenityinside12 ай бұрын
And 80’s in Britain at least 😯
@ajs41Ай бұрын
@@serenityinside1 In truth the further back you go on the worse the safety protocols would have been, so the 60s would have been worse than the 70s, and so on. Picking out the 70s or 80s in particular isn't really right.
@derek967206 ай бұрын
"Company cuts corners to save money; many people die." Should be the headline for the majority of these disasters it seems.
@kaelananderson92376 ай бұрын
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!
@heatherhiggins20026 ай бұрын
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.
@Pyxis106 ай бұрын
@@kaelananderson9237And they do that at the behest of upepr management who sets the budget.
@AuroraWolf6556 ай бұрын
*cough* Boing
@bartbjorri95026 ай бұрын
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.
@timrobinson65736 ай бұрын
Italy's legal system is not based on English law. Italy is a place of injustice.
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
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
@MadameChristie6 ай бұрын
@@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
@josephd.55246 ай бұрын
you don't jail rich people- that's what poor people are for.
@Klaatu2Too6 ай бұрын
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.
@williamafton44276 ай бұрын
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.
@smontone6 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same.
@chatteyj6 ай бұрын
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.
@nomoretwitterhandles6 ай бұрын
@@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!
@Trollgernautt6 ай бұрын
The way she told what happened was very haunting.
@garyb62196 ай бұрын
Imagine!
@sarahfrith19846 ай бұрын
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 ❤
@seanpetaia6 ай бұрын
I can only imagine those poor souls were gone to soon, because rim reaper was on that court. 💀
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
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
@nophone93116 ай бұрын
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.
@AlGoYoSu6 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Alex_Was_Taken6 ай бұрын
@@AlGoYoSuyou don't need to be a rocket scientist to know overriding safety protocols is dangerous.
@PlatinumKaynine6 ай бұрын
"There had been 43 people in the gondola. 42 people died." Jesus Christ I can't even imagine the survivor's guilt
@redmage7776 ай бұрын
Also, the gondola was meant to hold 42, there were 43 on board. 1 extra passenger, 1 survivor. The Irony.
@red_d8496 ай бұрын
agreed
@leafisactuallyaplantyk6 ай бұрын
@@redmage777It was meant to hold 40 people, not 42
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
@@leafisactuallyaplantyk I think it was 40 people and 1 operator. There were 43 including the operator, so 2 more, and 1 survived. Actually, I think 2 survived, but 1 died in the hospital.
@leafisactuallyaplantyk5 ай бұрын
@@MiroslavProvod Did you watch the video?
@vustvaleo80686 ай бұрын
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.
@BadWebDiver6 ай бұрын
That probably contributed to a lot of the casualties, making them fatal.
@deftone16 ай бұрын
@@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.
@yuyutubee84356 ай бұрын
It was _all_ the horrifying part, mate.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
@@BadWebDiver Yes, majority of victims died from suffocation.
@classicmicroscopy93986 ай бұрын
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.
@heishinmega6 ай бұрын
Just imagining this gives me chills
@peterhoulihan97666 ай бұрын
Although, if the car did fall, would they be worse off?
@seanpetaia6 ай бұрын
I can only imagine why these poor souls were gone, because rim reaper was definitely riding on that curt. 💀
@ataridc6 ай бұрын
@@peterhoulihan9766break out the ballistics gel dummies filled with red goo and lets find out
@Cgeta46 ай бұрын
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
@Digglesisdead6 ай бұрын
Alesandra's description of the people speaking after the fall brought me to tears.
@MusicoftheDamned6 ай бұрын
Learning of the corner-cutting at 02:30 makes pretty much everything from 09:20 onward even less surprising than it already would be.
@TheGrifCannon006 ай бұрын
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.
@faenethlorhalien6 ай бұрын
Absolutely.
@DardanellesBy1086 ай бұрын
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.
@MadameChristie6 ай бұрын
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
@Ozymandias16 ай бұрын
@@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.
@davidjones3326 ай бұрын
@@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.
@peecee13846 ай бұрын
How could Sweitzer possibly be to blame? It's not his fault he wasn't trained properly.
@jdb47games6 ай бұрын
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.
@hindenburg20066 ай бұрын
Blame always rolls downhill, unfortunately 😒
@KCzz156 ай бұрын
@@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.
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
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
@FirstLast-vr7es6 ай бұрын
@@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.
@LordHeath19726 ай бұрын
Well documented without unnecessary padding; a pleasant voice from the narrator that is easy on the ears; and a perfect length. Perfectly edited.
@antonioforestgardens6976 ай бұрын
And punctuation, those A.I. versions? (certainly not voices) are laughable to say the least.
@vertyisprobablydead6 ай бұрын
First time here?
@TheThora173 ай бұрын
It’s been consistent like this for years👍
@VorpalStorm6 ай бұрын
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.
@julierobinson36336 ай бұрын
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...
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
@@julierobinson3633 Exactely, she was very brave. After 2 weeks she came back to school and finished her year with her classmates. On top of that, she had to go to courts often and her friends helped her to hide from journalists who never left her alone and kept asking questions. She recovered very fast and then became a journalist for Airone herself. Good career, but I don't think she ever married or had a partner and she died of cancer 33 years after the incident at the age of 47.
@I2dios86 ай бұрын
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.
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
and obvi they should have to live with that not their corrupt scumbag soullles incompetent thieving employers
@ingvarhallstrom23066 ай бұрын
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.
@deborahblackvideoediting86976 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
There were a few Alexandras classmates who also wanted to get on the gondola, but the operator just shouted at them that it's full, shut the door and saved their life this way... Alexandra, Francesca and Giovanni broke off from their class as they were chatting to some German boys ahead of them. Francesca and Giovanni were the only victims from the Carducci grammar school from Milan.
@corey63936 ай бұрын
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.
@bluegreenglue65656 ай бұрын
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.
@nottakennick6 ай бұрын
Whoa. Talk about scapegoating. What’s the bet nobody ever even told the guy there was an exam he was supposed to pass?
@reachandler36556 ай бұрын
I'm appalled the operator was sentenced to prison, he did as instructed, and was probably unaware qualifications were required.
@john1701q6 ай бұрын
"I was just following orders" IS not a valid excuse. If he had refused over 40 people would have lived.
@fortunatecookie6 ай бұрын
@@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
@Ozymandias16 ай бұрын
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.
@lilliematthews79226 ай бұрын
@@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?
@moteroargentino79446 ай бұрын
@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.
@cekojuna69306 ай бұрын
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.
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
in Viernam they actually give a shit about public safety though, not just making money by murdering people
@cekojuna69306 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Ozymandias16 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
@@Ozymandias1 Once we watched Twister when suddenly a real Tornado Warning was issued. Luckily, no tornado hit our house.
@budm99826 ай бұрын
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?
@kittykittylyons6 ай бұрын
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.
@rapidthrash19646 ай бұрын
The fact that anyone survived that fall insane, even if it is because of grim reasons.
@JoEbY-X6 ай бұрын
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!
@bicivelo6 ай бұрын
I have nightmares about just falling from high places and they are terrifying. This poor girl literally lived that nightmare.
@jamessimms4156 ай бұрын
I don’t like high places either, especially high bridges that I avoid whenever possible
@catherinebreitfeller669Ай бұрын
@@jamessimms415 Me too !!
@3LegsIn3 ай бұрын
As a kid, my best friend was Tommy who lived a few streets over. A family of 4 was killed on the gondola lived directly next door to him
@Fusilier76 ай бұрын
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.
@VillaFanDan926 ай бұрын
There is already video about that on this channel. I actually thought this was a repost until it got further into the story.
@katiekane52476 ай бұрын
He probably went to work for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 🤔
@chatteyj6 ай бұрын
@@VillaFanDan92 Theres a lot of videos about the second disaster
@poopmcgee38266 ай бұрын
that's not irony, that's coincidence.
@melissakrol32456 ай бұрын
I was stationed at Aviano at that time. It was so sad and disgraceful.
@SoManyRandomRamblings6 ай бұрын
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.
@jamessimms4156 ай бұрын
Or if there’s a particularly prickly patient. Times I’ve been in, I try to be as accommodating as possible & not too demanding
@maxinefreeman88586 ай бұрын
@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.
@KaileyB6166 ай бұрын
Same thing happens when tornado alarms are overused.
@SoManyRandomRamblings6 ай бұрын
@@KaileyB616 true
@alexandermathar7780Ай бұрын
The boy who cried Wolf- syndrome.
@Straswa6 ай бұрын
RIP to all those souls lost and condolences to their families. I cannot imagine the horror Alessandra went through. Nice work FH.
@easycamperdandog6 ай бұрын
Blaming the operator would leave a stain of unwarranted guilt upon his every waking hour. That was also a great tragedy of this event.
@MrMalvolio296 ай бұрын
@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! Cheers, stephen
@micheleshively85576 ай бұрын
It's Christian
@MrMalvolio296 ай бұрын
@@micheleshively8557 THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Quite kind of you!
@RyanideProductions6 ай бұрын
*Kristian
@cameron3986 ай бұрын
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.
@ronniejackson64296 ай бұрын
What I am really fascinated about his whole channel is that he never runs out of ideas of giving us a splendid documentary to talk about, but I am really wondering when will he run out of content, however I am deeply in love with his work effort and I hope that he will do more to surprise us with his work. Love from Pakistan
@user-ll8be9vt4u6 ай бұрын
Another story very well done. I can imagine the sole survivor having survivor's guilt.
@jamest24016 ай бұрын
“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.
@mrnice44346 ай бұрын
He properly mean November till April :)
@jfergs.33026 ай бұрын
Aye, I did a bit of a double take myself when I heard that :)
@montdawgs6 ай бұрын
Yes, a mistake resulting from rushing their videos. They used to be of much much higher quality.
@pseudotasuki6 ай бұрын
@@barron204I assure you, those are the months *without* snow.
@LilDitBit6 ай бұрын
We have the cold months from May to August down here in Australia! It's getting down to 5°C tonight 😉
@QT56566 ай бұрын
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! 👍
@stuartgmk6 ай бұрын
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.
@pseudotasuki6 ай бұрын
There have been *so* many accidents.
@aaronhogan23716 ай бұрын
@@stuartgmk life imitating art of Chris Lilly's "We Can Be Heroes"
@rich_edwards796 ай бұрын
They can be very scary, especially in the UK where it's almost always windy.
@firstnamelastname62166 ай бұрын
What?... Bounce houses have killed people??!! I shouldn't be surprised, but I mean wtf, for real....
@Eeveelyn6 ай бұрын
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.
@FirstLast-vr7es6 ай бұрын
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.
@Sashazur6 ай бұрын
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!
@DardanellesBy1086 ай бұрын
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.
@Scorpioncactusflower6 ай бұрын
Yup. He already did a video on that one. I was confused when this video dropped, actually 😂😂😂
@annemargaret55622 ай бұрын
Despicable that the untrained seasonal worker was punished for something so terrible that was essentially out of his hands. He did was he was told to do, and he paid for it. A tragic event on all accounts
@JoeSmith-vs5sy6 ай бұрын
All of the episodes of this channel are top notch.
@QueenE316 ай бұрын
Oh WOW!!! I started following you when you had 30,000 odd subscribers!! Well done. Well deserved 👏🏼
@earlmarney6 ай бұрын
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 KZbin, and yours is certainly one of the best. I have watched every one of your videos and will continue to watch them.
@earlofcumbrae-Ground_Zero6 ай бұрын
I think you meant November to April...not " April to November "...great content! Love the channel! ❤️ ❄️
@iamabuki6 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing.
@bobcastro93866 ай бұрын
Unless quoting the Southern Hemisphere definition of winter...
@Raindropsinvalencia3 ай бұрын
@@bobcastro9386 Cavelese is in Italy
@vladivosdogАй бұрын
shush
@starry536 ай бұрын
That disaster really impacted her life, and that last quote before she died really hit us all.
@ecocodex44316 ай бұрын
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
@dinolil14746 ай бұрын
He was released after nine months. Don’t worry. He is free now.
@aranuicdb26 ай бұрын
Thank you for the effort of bringing this video to us
@littlemiss_766 ай бұрын
I feel for Carlo in the control room and the survivor girl.
@trevormillar15766 ай бұрын
"Do cablecars fall often?" "No, once is enough!"
@peterhoulihan97666 ай бұрын
> 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.
@Scorpioncactusflower6 ай бұрын
We already had the other one. Check the 'Aviation Accidents' Playlist.
@WobblesandBean6 ай бұрын
Imagine being the only survivor, and hearing the people around you fading into oblivion, one by one, men, women, children, and all.
@krashd6 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
The owner of Hotel Grunwald in Cavalese, Giancarlo Gilmozzi, has been through all that. Saw the cable car stop, restart, swing, fall and disappear behind trees before crushing. Then drove with his friend on a slippery road and then run to help people. When they arrived at the cabin, there were 6 or 7 bodies outside (who fell out as the cabin was dragged) and the rest inside, many still crying and calling for help. They started pulling people out before official help arrived, unfortunately only Francesca Piovessana was alive, the rest were corpses. They pulled like 15 people out in that time. Incredible and chilling story!
@lifewuzonceezr6 ай бұрын
They put him in Jail?!! 😮
@Jameson17766 ай бұрын
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.
@timrobinson65736 ай бұрын
Italy is not considered a place of justice. Italy's legal system is not based on English law.
@prismpyre76536 ай бұрын
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
@Ozymandias16 ай бұрын
@@timrobinson6573 As if only countries with English (common) law know justice. And no injustice.
@marcorizzoni97666 ай бұрын
@@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.
@bluefanofeverything43296 ай бұрын
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.
@glennmcg81046 ай бұрын
❤ this channel, ive binged everything!😊
@maxl55286 ай бұрын
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)
@stefanobazzanella19766 ай бұрын
My name is Stefano bazzanella. my father was one of the first responders who were on the incident site. the scene was horrific! bodies was recognized because the sky swift. a 9 year old boy named STEFANO died on my father arms. this is the reason why my name is Stefano, . I am very surprised that’s story is popular on youtube videos. please ask me .. STEFANO BAZZANELLA .
@poepoepo6 ай бұрын
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
@imlistening11376 ай бұрын
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.
@jayr.37206 ай бұрын
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.
@danijuggernaut6 ай бұрын
I remember it well, i raised up in Switzerland and it was a shocking news in the TV.
@shayhannah54306 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@FascinatingHorror6 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@VERAmenteAnonima6 ай бұрын
Thank you for covering also these Italian accidents. Please make a video on the second Cavalese accident.
@Ozymandias16 ай бұрын
There is already one on this channel.
@VERAmenteAnonima6 ай бұрын
@@Ozymandias1 Thanks! I'll check
@nancyaustin95166 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
The rest of the school was behind. Alexandra, Francesca and Giovanni got ahead of the class and their teached in the queue while talking to some German boys so they were the only ones of that class in the cabin. Only Alexandra survived.
@craigritchie84706 ай бұрын
Greed + Complacency = Faliure
@246trixie6 ай бұрын
Gondolas scare the sh*t out of me, and ski lifts
@TheLastPhoen1x6 ай бұрын
Winter months April to November? Last time I checked Italy wasn't in the southern hemisphere.
@neiloflongbeck57056 ай бұрын
Didn't you know it flies south for the winter.
@seandelap85876 ай бұрын
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
@Thephillips-dj1po6 ай бұрын
"This is a horrible disaster that should not have happened." Some Dumbasses in the US Air Force: *"There is Another."*
@waleniafs6 ай бұрын
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
@BruinsPastaSauce6 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
The town blamed Carlo Schweizer. People were even afraid to shake his hand because they would "touch the finger that caused this tragedy".
@dorian45346 ай бұрын
Gods. That last quote is haunting.
@brightnbreezyfelix10036 ай бұрын
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 …. 😢.
@francoiscomeau91046 ай бұрын
I believe you said "During the winter months, usually from around April to around November..." Great video as usual!
@lisaknits696 ай бұрын
Love listening to these stories ❤❤
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
It's interesting there are so many similarities between the 1976 and 1998 Cavalese incidents. The surnames of the people at blame, Carlo Schweizer and Joseph Schweitzer, are very similar. In both incidents, the cabin operator who died in the cabin swapped shifts a few days before. In both cases, the strong carrier cable gave way due to external force (friction and being struck by plane), something that never happened on any other such cable car in the world. The crushed cabin was always a full cabin during one of the last few afternoon runs, with the other cabin going up being empty only with the operator in it. Marcello Vanzo, the cabin operator who died in the 2nd incident, lived in a farmhouse below the cable car. In 1976 the cabin crushed in a field not far from his house. In 1998 he died in the crash, his body being the only body outside of the cabin. All other bodies were inside.
@seandelap85876 ай бұрын
Always look forward to a Tuesday morning video by FH
@cabooseabs68643 ай бұрын
Crazy they jail the untrained worker and not the cost/safety cutting operators who put the untrained worker in that position. How was he supposed to know if he was just following the operators instructions?
@LprogressivesANDliberals6 ай бұрын
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
@kushgoblin510206 ай бұрын
What are you talking about?
@DardanellesBy1086 ай бұрын
@@kushgoblin51020In 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.
@krashd6 ай бұрын
That happened in the same place as this one, that is why they call it the second Cavalese disaster.
@PetroicaRodinogaster2642 ай бұрын
So, typically, the desire for money over-rode the desire for safety. Commonsense tells you that if a safety system goes off all the time it must either be faulty or the thing it is going off about, is faulty and things need to be checked. The person who told the untrained person to turn it off was to blame. But all in all, 42 people’s lives were not important enough to warrant longer jail time for the guilty.
@HeronCoyote12346 ай бұрын
Everyone who’s commenting on the months of snow, give it a rest! Kristian does a fabulous job, week in, week out, giving us detailed, well-researched and delivered accounts of tragedies. Quick joke: A woman walks into a butcher shop, picks up a chicken, smells it left, right, inside and out, and says, rather indignantly, “Sir, this chicken stinks!” To which the butcher replies, “Madame, would YOU pass a test like that?”
@giorgismama80246 ай бұрын
Ha ha!Thanks for your joke. I needed it to start my day with a laugh.
@andreas71366 ай бұрын
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).
@madibuehlie61446 ай бұрын
Wow never been this early for a upload
@ElShermanElBarbarian6 ай бұрын
Same
@pudik2008Ай бұрын
What horror for everyone on board.😮 Greed always plays a big part in these accidents. So sad. 😢😢
@wolcek6 ай бұрын
From April to November it would be the whole summer. I doubt they have much snow there then.
@sir_christmas_leopold_duckson6 ай бұрын
"...230 feet to the ground below." "She later described the experience." I was completely flabbergasted by that.
@TheClumsyFairy6 ай бұрын
1:07 Don't you mean "From November to April", not "from April to November"??
@searchanddiscover6 ай бұрын
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.
@MiroslavProvod5 ай бұрын
That was during the Mottarone disaster of 2021. This video covers the Cavalese disaster in 1976.
@sailorman94036 ай бұрын
All I can't help but seeing is, "The First..."
@Thephillips-dj1po6 ай бұрын
Some Dumbasses in the US Air Force: *"There is Another."*
@lexwithbub6 ай бұрын
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. 😮
@Scorpioncactusflower6 ай бұрын
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.'
@basbleupeaunoire6 ай бұрын
Poor Sweitzer! He was blameless! I suspect Allisandra was downplaying her PTSD in that passage.
@essiebessie6616 ай бұрын
Poor Sweitzer. You don’t know what you don’t know.
@krashd6 ай бұрын
The first disaster is not caused by someone called Schweizer but he goes to jail anyway. The second disaster IS caused by someone called Schweizer but he evades jail.
@michelletrimmer74315 ай бұрын
I live in Nevada and ski at Lake Tahoe. My favorite place was Squaw Valley. I stopped going there when they changed the name. Most of the resorts have gondolas to take you up the mountain. The cars are filled with people and their ski equipment. I was always uneasy. I hate heights and the movement of the car. This just sealed the deal for me. This coming year I planned to ski again after my total knee replacement. I think I will go snow tubing instead.
@Tainotito406 ай бұрын
It's always somebody cutting corners to save dam money never mind SAFETY
@echteferux5 күн бұрын
Well made documentary. Some notes: it was not the moving cable that broke, but the supporting cable. In case the moving cable would have broken, the emergency brakes would have stopped the cabin. Also, the operator was not the only one sentenced to prison.
@Idontexisthahaa6 ай бұрын
Ayyy, new phobia dropped!
@cubbi27896 ай бұрын
And people wonder why I don’t like traveling on anything that goes up into the air
@cyndieperez62676 ай бұрын
Just rode the gondola up to the Alyeska Resort in Alaska.... so glad I had not seen this video beforehand. That shits a scary ride!! 😮
@Goabnb946 ай бұрын
Repeated activations of safety systems is a sign of a problem, with the thing the safety system is looking over, or the system itself. It should never be regarded as just "part of the job", its there for a reason, and here we have an example of boy crying wolf, nobody believed the safety system warning of a very real problem.
@TayePurks2 ай бұрын
Alesandra only got to live for 33 more years until she passed away naturally after this accident… life is really cruel! You always expect and want people who survive traumatic events like this to live long lives afterwards for what happened to them but the reality is the Mother Nature doesn’t give a shit and life moves on 😔 Good thing we are here to keep the memory of these good folks alive! 💕