Cable Car Collision Seconds from Disaster : Season 4 Episode 5
TV-PG National Geographic 1h 00m
Aired: October 3rd, 2011 @ 8:30 PM EST on National Geographic
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location in 1976), occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort located in the Dolomites, some 40 km north-east of Trento. The disaster, which led to the death of 20 people, occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
