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5-Year-Old Israeli Boy is Lone Survivor of Italy Cable Car Crash, 5 Members of His Family Killed By Maggie Gile On 5/24/21 at 1:00 PM EDT Associated Press reported. The accident happened when the car s lead cable snapped and the cabin careened down the mountain until if fell off the line and crashed to the ground. Among those killed were Eitan Biran s parents, two great-grandparents and younger brother. Italian media identified all the other victims as residents of Italy. The disaster, in one of the most picturesque spots in northern Italy the Mottarone mountaintop overlooking Lake Maggiore and other lakes near Switzerland raised questions anew about the quality and safety of Italy s transport infrastructure. ....
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com. 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. ....
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 Hide Transcript 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 sonid ....
174 shares 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, as seen from the aerial photograph, May 23, 2021. (Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP) The lone survivor of Sunday’s cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people, 5-year-old Eitan Biran, was apparently saved by the embrace of his father, who died when the cabin crashed to the ground, a hospital spokesperson said. “In order to be able to survive the terrible impact, it is likely that the father, who was of robust build, wrapped his son in a hug,” the Regina Margherita Hospital in Turin said, according to the Italian la Repubblica newspaper. ....