Cavalese, Italy · 1998
A military jet cut a cable car's cable. Nobody was convicted
In 1998 a US Marine jet, flying far below its limit, cut a cable car's cable in the Italian Alps. 20 people died and nobody was convicted of their deaths.
What is said in this reel
February 1998 20 people ride a cable car in the Italian Alps. A military jet flying far below its limit cuts the cable. 20 people die. The jet belonged to the US Marines. Italy wanted a trial. America judged its own. Nobody was convicted of the deaths. Where should that trial have been? The full story is on the Anthropio YouTube channel.
Credits and sources
- Footage: AP Archive (1998 news reports); Rai Storia, I giorni della storia
- Newspaper pages: l'Unità, 4 February 1998
- Photo: the Cermis cable car, undated photograph, via Wikimedia Commons. U.S. Marine Corps emblem, via Wikimedia Commons
- Opening fall: AI-generated illustration (Dreamina). Jet-and-cable shot: AI-generated from an Antropeo 3D model.
- Narration: AI-generated voice.
