One killed and 184 stranded midair after cable car collapses in Turkey
- A cable car accident in Antalya, Turkey resulted in one death and ten injuries, with more than 160 first responders involved in the rescue operations.
- The cable car line, completed in 2017, suffered an incident where a pod hit a pole, causing casualties to plummet down the mountainside below.
- An expert commission was tasked with determining the cause of the incident, initiated by the Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.
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Dozens still stranded after deadly Turkey cable car accident
ISTANBUL — Forty-three people remained stranded in mid-air on Saturday, hours after a pylon supporting cable cars collapsed outside the southern Turkish resort city of Antalya killing one person, rescue services said. Ten people were injured in the accident, which happened late Friday afternoon, after one cable car in the Sarisu-Tunektepe system plummeted into a rocky area, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. A total of 128 passengers were resc…
One person died and several were injured in an accident on a cable car in southern Turkey on Friday. 174 were stuck in the air. The rescue effort was concluded almost a day later.
174 people stranded in the air rescued, almost a day after a fatal cable car accident
ISTANBUL (AP) — The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety Saturday, nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when they plummeted to the rocks below.
1 Dead, 10 injured in cable car accident in southern Turkey
ISTANBUL — One person died and 10 others injured Friday in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pole, the interior ministry said Saturday. Twenty-four cabins were stranded in the air at 5:23 p.m. Friday. Sixteen hours later, more than 60 people were still stranded in the remaining nine cabins in the air, the ministry said; 112 people had been rescued. None of the people waiting to be rescued h…
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