One cable car hit a pole on Friday afternoon, sending its passengers plummeting to the mountainside below.
The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday.
The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below.
Hundreds were left stranded, with more than 40 people still stuck high above the mountain 19 hours after the incident.
I fucking hate these things.
I’ll be fascinated to hear more about this as it gets investigated. I’m a former ski lift operator and there’s so many systems on a modern lift to prevent that. That one looks not quite new but certainly not so old as to not have such precautions. Though it just says hit a pole, it’s possible that said pole wasn’t a lift tower, and of course being that this happened in Turkey it’s possible if not likely that the standards are simply lower than in Colorado.
