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Light Aircraft caught in Ski lift cables in Italy

Those ski lift cables are pretty impressive close-up. They are about 5cm diameter and the weight of a reasonable piece of it must be as much as the whole aircraft. They show cross-sections of it in some of the ski lifts (marketing by the cable manufacturer).

OTOH some years ago a military jet managed to cut one of these, causing a big accident.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

AFAIK, there is no airfield or airstrip in the vicinity of the mentioned locality.

Mainz (EDFZ) & Egelsbach (EDFE), Germany

Landing?

Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom

The bigger question is what was he doing flying so close the ground! Must have been a very violent impact with the cables. Looks like he hit the first cable, which sheared off his nosewheel, then the plane rotated violently around its horizontal axis and it impacted the second cable just before the empennage. You can the see the tail wrapped around the cable.

Upper Harford private strip UK, near EGBJ, United Kingdom
Mainz (EDFZ) & Egelsbach (EDFE), Germany

Looks like a Tecnam P92 UL to me

Private field, Mallorca, Spain

What aircraft type is it? 3 axis microlight? Nose wheel knocked off?
Flaps seem to have been down.

Maoraigh
EGPE, United Kingdom

A few years ago a C152 got caught in electricity wires in Seattle, with no injuries to the sole occupant. The pilot involved died in a plane crash a few years later.

Andreas IOM

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Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

What are the usual places?

ESME, ESMS
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