Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy cable car disaster occurred on 1 July 1999 in Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy , France , when a gondola which was being operated on a privately owned aerial tramway detached from the cable it was traveling on , and fell into the valley below . The accident killed all twenty people on board . The death toll was equal to that of another cable car accident in Italy which occurred one year previously . The disaster remains the deadliest cable car accident in France , and one of the deadliest such incidents anywhere in the world
another cable car accident in Italy
Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy cable car disaster