{"id":1440159,"date":"2022-04-15T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440159"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:15:18","slug":"india-botched-cable-car-helicopter-rescue-kills-2-stranded-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-botched-cable-car-helicopter-rescue-kills-2-stranded-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Botched Cable Car Helicopter Rescue Kills 2 Stranded Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findia-botched-cable-car-helicopter-rescue-kills-2-stranded-passengers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Trikut-Pahar-ropeway-Jharkhand-India-gettyimages-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A cable-car accident in eastern India\u2019s Jharkhand state on Sunday \u2014 which left dozens of frightened passengers hanging mid-air for 40 consecutive hours \u2014 turned deadly after two people fell to their deaths during subsequent helicopter rescue missions and a third person died from injuries sustained inside one of the carriages, the <em>Indian Express<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/month-before-jharkhand-cable-car-accident-audit-warned-keep-watch-on-rope-7866708\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 60 people were traveling in cable cars along the Trikut Ropeway, reportedly India\u2019s highest, in Jharkhand on April 10 when an unspecified malfunction caused the transit system to stop functioning, resulting in three of the carriages crashing into each other. At least 15 of the ropeway\u2019s passengers remained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A5OC6IjuDnE\">trapped<\/a> inside the affected carriages from April 10 through April 12 following the collision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cThree people have died in the mishap, including two tourists who fell from helicopters on Monday [April 11] and Tuesday [April 12] during rescue attempts, while 12 injured people are undergoing treatment at hospitals,\u201d local government officials told Indian media on April 12, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/3-dead-8-stranded-mid-air-after-cable-car-accident-in-jharkhand-2880395\">quoted<\/a> by New Delhi Television (NDTV).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Indian Express<\/em> detailed the botched helicopter rescues on April 13, writing, \u201ca\u00a060-year-old woman fell to her death as she was being winched up to one of the two IAF [Indian Air Force] helicopters on duty \u2014 the second such fatality during the rescue.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOf the two other victims, another woman had succumbed to injuries sustained inside a cable car on Sunday while a 40-year-old man fell to death while being hauled up to a helicopter on Monday,\u201d according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Two IAF helicopters flew \u201c28 sorties over 26 hours\u201d in the Trikut hills, a regional tourist destination, as part of the rescue mission. The IAF posted a statement to its official Twitter page on April 12 confirming two deaths occurred during their rescue attempts, writing, \u201c35 passengers from 10 cable cars were evacuated in this extremely challenging operation. IAF deeply regrets the loss of two lives during the rescue missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The accident\u2019s third casualty, a woman identified as Shobha Devi, 60, died later on April 12 from wounds sustained during the cable car collision.<\/p>\n<p>Jharkhand Tourism director Rahul Sinha told Indian media on April 13 the ropeway\u2019s metal cable \u201chad come out of its shaft\u201d on the evening of April 10, \u201cwhich led to 24 cable cars getting stalled midway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manager and other employees of the Trikut Ropeway allegedly \u201cfled\u201d the scene immediately after the incident on April 10, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI). If true, the actions could be tied to the <em>Indian Express<\/em>\u2018s revelation on April 13 that the Trikut Ropeway\u2019s regular inspection on March 17 warned operators of the line to monitor its main cable as it was at apparent risk of malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] government-backed agency had conducted a safety audit about three weeks ago of the 1,770m-long steel rope used to haul the cable cars \u2014 and reported that its condition was \u2018satisfactory,&#8217;\u201d the newspaper relayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe audit report pointed to \u201924 local flaws\/initiation of flaws\u2019 and recommended that a \u2018close visual watch\u2019 be kept on the rope and its joints or the \u2018splicing portions\u2019. But crucially, it emphasised that the probe \u2018does not include\u2019 the aspect of \u2018fatigue\u2019 that may have developed over time on the haulage rope, which was installed in 2014,\u201d the <em>Indian Express<\/em> noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report recommended that the rope should be kept clean and protected from corrosion. \u2018Special attention may be given\u2026as the rope is more than seven years old. If any abnormality is noticed, rope may be replaced immediately,&#8217;\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cable-car accident in eastern India\u2019s Jharkhand state on Sunday \u2014 which left dozens of frightened passengers hanging mid-air for 40 consecutive hours \u2014 turned deadly after two people fell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}