Editing Cable transport (section)

=== Accidents ===
* A [[Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)|cable car accident in Cavalese]], Italy, on 9 March 1976 is considered the worst aerial lift accident in history. The car crashed off the rails and fell 200 meters down a mountainside, also crashing through a grassy meadow before coming to a halt. The tragedy caused the death of 43 people, and four lift officials were jailed for charges regarding the accident.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5177392.stm |title=People injured in cable car crash |date=13 July 2006 |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430151752/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5177392.stm |archive-date=April 30, 2008}}</ref>
* On April 15, 1978, a cable car at [[Squaw Valley Ski Resort]] in California came off from one of its cables, dropping 75 feet (23&nbsp;m) and violently bouncing up. It collided with a cable which sheared through the car. Four people were killed and 31 injured.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tahoequarterly.com/winter-2014-2015/tram-car-trauma |title=California Cable Car incident |date=27 February 2015 |access-date=July 9, 2018 |publisher=tahoequarterly.com}}</ref>
* The [[Singapore cable car crash]] of 29 January 1983 occurred when a drilling rig passed beneath the cable car system linking the Singapore mainland with [[Sentosa]] island. The derrick of the drilling rig aboard the ship MV ''Eniwetok'' struck the cables, causing two of the gondolas to fall into the sea below. There were 7 fatalities. 
* On February 3, 1998, [[Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)|twenty people died in Cavalese]], Italy, when a [[United States Marine Corps]] [[EA-6B Prowler]] aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, cut a cable supporting a gondola of an [[aerial tramway]]. Those killed, 19 passengers and one operator, were eight Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, one Austrian, and one Dutch.<ref>[http://www.valdifiemme.it/comitato3febbraio/vittime.htm Le Vittime] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007055321/http://www.valdifiemme.it/comitato3febbraio/vittime.htm |date=2007-10-07 }} (list of the names of the victims) by the ''Comitato 3 Febbraio per la giustizia'' (3 February Committee for Justice), from valdifiemme.it {{in lang|it}}</ref> The United States refused to have the four Marines tried under Italian law and later [[court-martial]]ed two of them with minimal charges in their country.
* The [[Kaprun disaster]] was a fire that occurred in an ascending train in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving 12 survivors (10 Germans and two Austrians) from the burning train. It is one of the worst cable car accidents in history.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.skimag.com/uncategorized/kaprun-funicular-accident-worst-in-history |title=Worst cable car accident in history |date=January 2000 |access-date=July 9, 2018 |publisher=skimagazine.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3502265.stm |title=Kaprun Disaster |date=19 February 2004 |publisher=BBC.uk |access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref>
* A cable car derailed and crashed to the ground in the Nevis Range, near Fort William, Scotland, on 13 July 2006, seriously injuring all five passengers. Another car on the same rail also slid back down the rails when the crash happened. Following the incident, 50 people were left stranded at the station whilst the staff and aid helped the passengers of the crashed car.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gillan |first1=Audrey |title=Four hurt as cable car derails on Nevis range |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/14/travelnews.travel |website=the Guardian |access-date=9 July 2018 |language=en |date=13 July 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Five injured in Highlands cable car accident |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/five-injured-in-highlands-cable-car-accident-1-466758 |publisher=scotsman.com |access-date=9 July 2018 |language=en |archive-date=9 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709215614/https://www.scotsman.com/news/five-injured-in-highlands-cable-car-accident-1-466758 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* On Wednesday 25 July 2012, passengers of the [[London cable car]] were stuck 90 meters in the air when a power failure caused the gondola to stop over the River Thames. The fault happened at 11:45{{nbsp}}am and lasted for about 30 minutes. No passengers were injured, but this was the first problem to ever hit the London's new cable car link.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/passengers-stranded-90-metres-in-the-air-as-londons-new-cable-car-breaks-down-7976314.html |title=Passengers stranded 90 meters in the air as Londons new cable car breaks down |date=25 July 2012 |publisher=standard.uk |access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-18985455 |title=Emirates Air Line Thames Cable Car breaks down |work=BBC News |date=25 July 2012 |access-date=July 9, 2018 }}</ref>