Die in Italy As U.S. Jet Cuts A Ski Lift Cable

Die in Italy As U.S. Jet Cuts A Ski Lift Cable

The remains of a cable car after a US Marine Corps aircraft, flying too low and against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut the cable that was supporting it to the aerial lift, killing 20 people, Cavalese, Italy, 1998

The Cavalese cable car crash, also known as the Strage del Cermis (Italian: Massacre of Cermis), occurred on 03 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Trento.

An air-to-air view showing two US Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft from Electronic Attack Squadron One Three Nine (VAQ-139) “Cougars,” flying in formation during a routine training mission conducted in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The EA-6B’s primary mission is to protect fleet surface units and other aircraft by jamming hostile radars and communications.

Twenty people were killed when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, flying too low and against regulations, in order for the pilots to “have fun” and “take videos of the scenery”, cut a cable supporting a cable car of an aerial lift. Joseph Schweitzer, one of the two American pilots, confessed in 2012 that he had burned the tape containing incriminating evidence upon returning to the American base.

The pilot, Captain Richard J. Ashby, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, were put on trial in the United States and 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 US and Italy.

Among the twenty killed, nineteen passengers and one operator, were seven Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, two Austrians, and one Dutch.

President Bill Clinton offered an official apology and promised monetary compensation. Thomas M. Foglietta, US Ambassador to Italy at the time, visited the crash site and knelt in prayer, offering apologies on behalf of the United States.

In Italy, where the event received the name of Strage del Cermis, the low-level flight was strongly criticised and some politicians called for a re-evaluation of rules or a complete ban of such exercises, though low-level flight was already illegal.

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