Sunday, August 14, 2011

Video of mid-air rescue drama for tourists trapped in Alpine cable car

By RussiaToday on Aug 13, 2011
Emergency helicopters on Saturday rescued 20 tourists, ranging in age from four to 75, who had been trapped for 17 hours overnight on an Alpine cable car in Southern Germany. Helicopter crews lifted the cable car operator and 19 tourists to safety early on Saturday from a gondola suspended 330 feet (100 metres) above the ground on Tegelberg mountain in southern Germany. The cable car that climbs the 6,170-foot (1,880-metre) Tegelberg mountain was halted on Friday after a paraglider tandem flight crashed into its cables.


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