German Cable Car Collision Leaves Dozens Stranded in mid-air

German Cable Car Collision Leaves Dozens Stranded in mid-air

FastnewsJul 31, 2017
Dozens of people were left suspended in mid-air after a cable car hit a support pillar and came to a stop over the River Rhine in Germany.
Fire crews and rescue teams in Cologne used a crane to reach the 75 trapped passengers, some of them said to have been as high as 40m (130 ft).
Pictures show children being lowered to the ground. No injuries were reported.
All of the 32 cars believed to have been in operation at the time came to a halt when the incident occurred.
The collision took place at around 15.30 (13:30 GMT).
The incident is said to have been the result of one of the gondolas clipping a part of the support structure, bringing the entire cable transport system to a standstill.
A man and a child are abseiled from a gondola over the Rhine in Cologne, western Germany, 30 July 2017Image captionA man clutches a child as they are lowered to the ground near the Rhine in Cologne
German fire crews evacuate trapped passengers from suspended cable cars that run over the river Rhine after a gondola ran into a support pillar in Cologne, Germany, 30 July 2017Image captionFire crews use a crane to evacuate trapped passengers as high as 40m (130 ft) in the air
German fire crews evacuate dozens of passengers from suspended cable cars that run over the river Rhine after a gondola ran into a support pillar in Cologne, Germany, 30 July 2017Image captionA passenger waits patiently as a member of the fire service slides along a cable
A mother and her child abseil from a gondola over the Rhine in Cologne, western Germany, 30 July 2017Image captionA woman and child abseil to safety