Naples Cable Car Crash

[Master Bean]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq7345yrjo

Four killed after a cable snapped. I went on this one about 20 years ago with my parents. It looked dodgy but you just assume these things are tested and have safety systems in place.

This was a previous one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/at-l...

And in 2018 the bridge in Genoa collapsed. They need to sort this stuff out.

[Zed Ed]

Happy to use cable cars/ lifts in decent ski resorts in Italy ; other than that i’d give them a miss.

[popegregory]

We’re down here now on a school trip. Nothing to do with it but the limited drip feed breaking news on the bbc was enough to terrify a couple of parents before we saw what had happened and could text home. As others have suggested, it’s one of those “I’m sad, but not overly surprised” sort of things…

[Southerner]

The Emirates ( or whatever it’s currently called ) over the Thames terrifies me, no chance I’m getting on an ancient, ropey looking version in a foreign land. Very sad all the same, in mainland western Europe you’d expect to be safe.

At least it wasn’t a cowboy in a Yank aircraft this time, hopefully…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_...