The Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular train waiting at the lower valley station. The train involved caught fire shortly after leaving the valley station and entered the tunnel where it came to a halt. The tunnel entrance is visible in the background.
On 11 November 2000, a fire in the tunnel of Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, killed 155 people. The cause was traced to a faulty fan heater. Most of the victims were skiers on their way to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier. To date, this incident remains the deadliest rail disaster in Austrian history.
the deadliest rail disaster in Austrian history. The Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular railway opened in 1974 and ran from Kaprun to the Kitzsteinhorn...
Kaprun (German pronunciation: [kaˈpruːn]) is a municipality in the Zell am See District in the province of Salzburg in Austria. Together with the neighboring...
other cases, such as the 2002 slavery class action lawsuit and 2005 Kaprundisaster lawsuit. Fagan lost his license in both New York and New Jersey for...
disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters...
Barents Sea, killing all 118 men on board. On November 11, 2000, the Kaprundisaster occurred. 155 people perished in a fire that broke out on a train in...
country. The Kaprundisaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending train in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, on...
Geographic documentary programme Seconds From Disaster investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th century. Each episode aims...
Aerial Tramway Kaprun III (Gletscherbahn Kaprun III) is the third section of the aerial tramway on the Kitzsteinhorn mountain at Kaprun, Austria. It was...
Moguls World Champion in 1999. Schmitt died with her parents in the Kaprundisaster on 11 November 2000. "Freestyle-Star Sandra Schmitt unter den Opfern"...
Blueprint for Disaster is a Canadian documentary television series that premiered in 2004 on Discovery Channel Canada. Produced by Temple Street Productions...
magazines, including Playboy and Maxim. His feature film project about the Kaprundisaster, Smoke in the Tunnel, has been in production for more than 10 years...
car, for greater capacity. This funicular was the location of the Kaprundisaster in which 155 people died on 11 November 2000. To replace the funicular...
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World Cup winner produces 'Smoke in the Tunnel', a film about the Kaprundisaster". Summit Daily. Retrieved 2023-05-22. Fuhrer, Margaret (2022-02-11)...
peerage. 2000 – Kaprundisaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. 2001...
the new European Union safety guidelines for cable cars after the Kaprundisaster. Since 24 July 2004, it is again running on schedule. The line is one...
alpine skier, killed during the Kaprundisaster. Sandra Schmitt, 19, German freestyle skier, killed during the Kaprundisaster. Halvar Björk, 72, Swedish actor...
train's 155 passengers survived the fire in the Kaprundisaster. December 2 – The Sarai Banjara rail disaster in the Punjab, India killed 46 and injured at...
2000 due to the tightened safety regulations after the fire of the Kaprundisaster and taken over by the city of Graz. After implementing extensive health...
largest party following the parliamentary election. November 11 - Kaprundisaster, Austria: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and...
2000, he insisted that the memorial service for the victims of the Kaprundisaster include a Eucharist, which prevented the head of the evangelical church...
Austrian to win gold in snowboarding. She was present at the Kaprun Funicular Disaster on 11 November 2000, a fire which claimed the lives of 155 people...
fire in an ascending train in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 in Kaprun. The disaster killed 155 people. A memorial to Josef Schaupper was erected...
is an incomplete list of notable avalanches. Avalanche List of natural disasters by death toll "The Peru Earthquake: A Special Study". Bulletin of the...
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