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Italy’s transport minister vowed Monday to establish the cause of a cable car disaster that killed 14 people, after the lead cable apparently snapped and the cabin careened back down the mountain until it came off the line and crashed to the ground.
The lone survivor of Sunday s horrific incident, a 5-year-old Israeli boy living in Italy, remained hospitalized in Turin on Monday with multiple broken bones.
The Israeli foreign ministry identified him as Eitan Biran. His parents, younger brother and two great-grandparents were among the dead, the ministry said, correcting an earlier statement that had included Eitan among the victims.
Five members of Israeli family killed in cable car accident in northern Italy
Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2022. A mountaintop cable car plunged to the ground in northern Italy on Sunday, killing at least nine people and sending at least three more to the hospital, authorities said. (Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese via AP)
Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday that five members of an Israeli family who were among the 14 people who were killed in Italy when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain. were members of one family, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday.
STRESA, Italy (AP) – The investigation into Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people will focus on why the lead cable snapped and why the emergency brake didn’t engage and prevent the cabin from careening back down the mountain until it pulled off the support line and crashed to the ground, the lead prosecutor said Monday.
Verbania Prosecutor Olimpia Bossi outlined the contours of her investigation based on what she said was objective, empirical fact of what occurred: “The brakes of the security system didn’t work. Otherwise the cabin would have stopped,” she said. “Why that happened is naturally under investigation.”
Investigators: Brakes failed in Italian cable car crash that left 14 dead Share Updated: 4:08 PM EDT May 24, 2021 By NICOLE WINFIELD and CHARLENE PELE Associated Press
Investigators: Brakes failed in Italian cable car crash that left 14 dead Share Updated: 4:08 PM EDT May 24, 2021
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Show Transcript We re following tragic news out of Italy. On Sunday morning, a cable car carrying 15 passengers plummeted down a mountainside on the banks of lake majority in northern Italy. Almost all of the passengers died immediately at the accident. Now this accident happened just as the cable car was about to reach its final destination 1,491 m above the lake. They were trying to reach a panoramic outlook area overlooking this very popular lake in the north of the country. Rescue workers had to be airlifted down or travel on foot in order to reach the wreckage site, which was inaccessible by road. Barbie Lot sonido CNN Rome.
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Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021. (Italian Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP)
Five Israelis from one family, including a 2-year-old child, were among the 14 people killed Sunday when a cable car plummeted to the ground in Italy’s Piedmont region, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday morning.
The ministry said in a statement that Amit Biran, 30, his wife Tal Peleg-Biran, 26, and their 2-year-old son Tom Biran, who lived in northern Italy, and Peleg-Biran’s grandparents Barbara and Yitzhak Cohen of Tel Aviv, 71 and 81, were all among the dead.