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Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998, also called the Strage del Cermis ("Massacre at Cermis") occurred on February 3, 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft while flying lower than regulations allowed, allegedly in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway, causing it to plunge 260 feet to the ground.〔(20 Die in Italy As U.S. Jet Cuts A Ski Lift Cable )〕 Joseph Schweitzer, one of the two American pilots, in 2012 finally confessed that upon return to the American base he burned the tape that contained incriminating evidence.〔http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/cronaca/2012/01/20/news/cermis-il-pilota-confessa-1.39576〕 The pilot, Captain Richard J. Ashby, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, were put on trial in the United States and were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide. Later they were found guilty of obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman for having destroyed a videotape recorded from the plane and were dismissed from the Marine Corps. The disaster, and the subsequent acquittal of the pilots, strained relations between the United States and Italy.
==Details of the disaster ==
On 3 February 1998, an EA-6B Prowler, BuNo (bureau number) ''163045'', 'CY-02', callsign ''Easy 01'', an electronic warfare aircraft belonging to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) of the United States Marine Corps, was on a low altitude training mission. At 14:13 local time it struck the cables supporting the aerial tramway-style cable car from Cavalese. The aircraft was flying at a speed of and at an altitude of between . When reaching approximately , the aircraft's right wing struck the cables supporting the cable car. The cable was severed and 20 people in the cabin descending from Cermis plunged over to their deaths. The plane had wing and tail damage but was able to return to its base, Aviano Air Base.〔John Tagliabue with Matthew L. Wald, ("Death in the Alps: a special report.; How Wayward U.S. Pilot Killed 20 on Ski Lift" ), ''The New York Times'', 18 February 1998.〕〔(''Italian outrage over cable car tragedy'' ), BBC news, Wednesday, 4 February 1998.〕
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