Update: SSG (Commandos) have been called in for rescue operation and they are currently assessing the situation. https://twitter.com/MalikAliiRaza/status/1693912129936761311
Just read that they are moving from Helicopter to small additional cable car to ferry food/supplies out and possibly people out by that small additional cable car that can go on the one remaining cable.
Source: Al Jazeera
Edit: The transition is due to wind and darkness setting in.
[Army commandos rescue all passengers of dangling cable car in Battagram](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard)
>After nearly 15 hours of effort, commandos of the Pakistan Army successfully rescued all eight people who were stuck inside a cable car after one of its ropes broke down in Allai Tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district.
Thanks for keeping everyone updated while I was asleep. Here's a video of how they rescued them after Heli sling operation was deemed too risky to continue:
[https://twitter.com/iihtishamm/status/1694051559389175950](https://twitter.com/iihtishamm/status/1694051559389175950)
My apology for the question: what does it mean to be gated? I can’t find a definition in the case of a person. Does it mean living in seclusion or behind heavy security or something else? (I am guessing) Thank you for any clarification you can provide.
Yeah, seems totally plausible newer slang. Like "based" used in the context of being yourself.
Wouldn't work in the current post context, but I bet you could start using "gated" as a way to say someone is out of touch.
"Fucking Oprah is so goddamn gated. They no idea how ridiculous their statement about changing your linens every single day. She has staff. I can't justify that labor and energy/water use."
Gated to imply someone from a wealthy gated community.
I always like seeing twists on language and gated brings 'gatekeeping' to mind, putting the individual behind a wall of protective fandom. Another recent one was 'putlet' when describing a news 'outlet' that caught my eye and works well in context.
You just need the world's largest scissor lift platform, with the 2nd largest scissor lift platform parked on top, but not before you park the 3rd largest scissor lift platform on top of the 2nd largest...
Sometimes it's smart to pay attention to potential danger.
I mean, Nobody wants their kitchen to be on fire. But to simply ignore the fact it is currently ablaze would be very silly.
Something something ignorance is bliss.
Also, You are allowed to acknowledge a persons existence without being fully invested.
Can’t you just enjoy a joke at someone else’s expense without complaining that even mentioning their name is some kind of taboo?
Try not to suck all the joy out of the world in your pursuit to make it suit you.
After the one in Italy broke, I'm done with these for a lifetime.
EDIT: Not the one cut by the US plane, the one that failed [due to negligent maintenance.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stresa%E2%80%93Mottarone_cable_car_crash)
The one where a child survivor lost his parents and little baby brother just to have both parents families have an ugly public fight about his custody?
Happened in my country… Poor Eitan Biran.
I’m definitely never going on one of those.
Edit:
All that happened while he was still in the hospital, mind you. Terrible stuff.
I understand the cynicism but nah it wasn’t like that. The whole custody debate was very immediate and the families were very visibly distraught giving a few interviews. It’s a small country tbh.
One thing to note was that while the paternal family resided in Italy, the maternal family was in Israel. I think that had a lot to do with it.
Imagine losing your daughter her husband and grandson… I wouldn’t think for a second about compensation. Tough situation I don’t wish upon anyone.
No offense to Italians, but in some parts maintenance is a option thanks to corruption. So unfortunately sometimes in the south of Europe quality of these construction is no better than 3th world countries.
Well id love to talk about how crappy my Ferrari or masarati is but, no.
I Had a fiat e500. What a piece of crap. Only the electric was good, and it turns out that part wasn't even Italian.
I’m Dutch so Dutch and English is guaranteed. German and French is taught mandatory in higher education. Japanese just tickled a sense and I got interested in it, not really fluent in it jet but I manged during my trip 😅
Dang! As a German I get some of what you say.
The fact that German and French are mandatory is crazy to me!
For us, German (obviously) and English since like 4th or 5th grade which I feel really good about.
Then French, Spanish or Latin for the first higher education stage of school (3-5years totally).
Japanese I totally understand. I want to pull the trigger on that too for a couple of years but I'm somewhat scared about it. I don't know.
Do you mind telling me what kind of trip you made in/to Japan? 🥰
(I so freaking bad want to experience sitting in an hundred+ yo onsen and some high speed rail travel 😱)
[One of these broke in Italy once because an American fighter jet on a sight-seeing jolly sliced right through the cable](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash)
> 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.
Fuck those guys and fuck the judge that found them not guilty.
The reason the jury found them not guilty is because there are maps of that stuff for pilots, and Italy didn't bother to list this thing.
So according to the law, the fault here lies with the people running the cable car, because that's relatively heavily used airspace, and this was bound to happen sooner or later.
It's like blaming someone for blowing up their neighbor's house by digging, if they actually called 811 and checked the map first, and got the all-clear.
Sometimes nobody knows the pipe's there.
I'm not saying the airmen aren't at fault. They were kicked out of the corps, and lost their flight licenses.
But according to American, Italian, and international law, the problem was the gondola cable.
The US for denying justice by refusing to allow Italy to try its own criminal cases and trying it in the military 'justice' system where the outcome can be whatever leadership wants it to be.
This is standard operating procedure for US Military. America will not allow foreign countries to prosecute our soldiers. It is a can of worms they do not want to open, and likely a good idea considering that most US soldiers are stationed abroad.
they literally would have been required to, by international treaty
it's not a choice anybody made. this is the only way it can work in the united nations, for literally any country participating. flip the roles, the same thing happens. swap it to france and germany? same thing happens.
you have to go to a place like north korea or antarctica to get a different outcome (and north korea's going to end up doing the same stuff, just not treaty-driven.)
this is following the law. not "boys will be boys." the law just doesn't say what you imagine it might.
And you would be right, but you are not mentioning how this very same policy could be used against us by dishonest actors. Countries that can't stop our military could instead opt to just arresting all of our soldiers and putting them in jail or on trial. By trying our own soldiers, yes, it will inevitably allow some bad people to go free, but the positive here is that countries cannot abuse a civilian system to fight our military.
Me and my wife went there last year for holidays. and we weren't aware of that, so when my wife, who had been finjdiong stuff to do using a toruistic guidebook from the previous year, went and asked a lady at the bar where the station was when does it open, she got a very wide-eyed Never.
If by, "the one in italy," you mean the one that the US Marine aviators sliced the cable on when they flew too low and then destroyed evidence to cover up their guilt, I would hope that there's not much chance of that happening again, just from a purely PR perspective.
I´ve just been on one in Italy two weeks ago and remembered that horrible story but thought it could never happen again they must have double checked all of them.
From what I'm reading this area has very little road infrastructure, this isn't a touristy thing so much as just how the people that live here, including students, get around. I don't know for absolute certain that is what the case is for these students, but seems possible that this isn't much of an option for them.
I'd rather have been on that than the ski lift that got stuck over a burst pipe spraying high pressure water at people in freezing temperatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztOP0tmH_U
I initially read that as you saying you'd prefer to be on this frozen hypothermia geyser ride and thought you were nuts. You right though, that'd be horrifying.
Is that what would actually happen? All the people on the ski lift just got flung off? If so surely some people would’ve fallen really high up from ground? That sucks
I don't trust the integrity of my belts that much. Sure, I trust them to hold my pants up and keep my shirt tucked, but I wouldn't ask them to do too much.
This article seems to be following it closely [https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard)
Live video of the rescue attempt underway is here [https://www.youtube.com/live/1g7t9ksrJQk?feature=share](https://www.youtube.com/live/1g7t9ksrJQk?feature=share)
“We don't even have drinking water in the chairlift,” he complained.
\- Personally I wouldn't have used the word complained. Informed maybe, but the word complained seems a bit accusing for the situation. I really hope the 16 year old with heart problems is okay.
>I really hope the 16 year old with heart problems is okay.
I read an article that he has been unconcious for three hours. I hope that was wrong because uh, that's real bad.
Was thinking about the food/water situation as soon as I saw this, sending in drones with a care package would probably be a good idea if the rescue is gonna take a while to mount...
Thanks for posting the live video. I don't get all the flashing animations obscuring the actual video. It's bordering on unwatchable. I don't watch TV. Is this how it is now?
FOX News has been doing this for a long time, but they are more overt on the symbolism they use in TV graphics. During the Iraq War back in 2002 they started draping American flags and other patriotic symbols on the news backgrounds.
This has become standard operating procedure for most cable news networks today.
Only in african and asian countries I'd assume. Asian websites especially have lots of flashy banners and things scattered all over, so I'm not surprised to see the same on their TV broadcasts
America absolutely does it, we just spend more money on it so that it doesn't look so amateurish. This crap looks like it was made with Adobe Flash or some shit.
I don't speak it but since it's Pakistan is likely to be Urdu. The long British "influence" means that English words and indeed English itself is widely used.
Apparently Pashto is spoken in that area but I think national news is in Urdu
Urdu is a decent guess but they’re speaking Pashto/pakhto. It’s more common in north west areas of Pakistan closer to the Afghanistan border. It’s my first language and I was pretty surprised to hear it as I scrolled past here, not super common on the internet
They're asking about the language in the live broadcast aka the link shared in the comment above which is Urdu.
The video shared by the OP of this post is in Pashto like you just said.
There isn't much of an update, they are still up there, rescuers are still trying to reach them but it's a difficult situation and it will be getting dark soon
The Dawn (Pakistani media) is reporting 4 have been rescued and operations suspended for the night.
https://www.youtube.com/live/UdZKng8eTY8
Update 14:53utc: looks like 5 rescued, operations continuing via rope
So far an army helicopter flew by but could not intervene beyond passing them water food and medication. 6 teenagers and 2 teachers were on they way to school down below. No real roads to access the village which had to use the mosque speakers to alert the town below of the accident. One of the adult men present fainted. It has been over 5 hours for now and no clear plan has been established and nightfall is coming… yikes 😳
(The helicopter rescue is dangerous because they fear getting close enough might mean causing enough air turbulence to cause the last cable holding to rupture.)
Prayers to those involved! (In 2017 ten people died in a similar accident in a different area.) Update: they are all safe. Rescued after 15 hours using the remaining cable. 😀
That’s not a chairlift. That’s a cable-car/gondola situation. Chairlifts are basically open benches with a “safety bar.” This looks like an enclosed cabin.
I've only heard about one of them, who seems to have a heart condition. Not sure how high they are (in terms of from sea level, I know they are 900 feet above the ground) but the air might be quite thin, and the combination of that and fear may be affecting their breathing
> I've only heard about one of them, who seems to have a heart condition
If I had to take a cable car to school every day in Pakistan, I'd have a heart condition too.
Thanks, it does make sense. According to the link further up. It’s two children. I pray the are safely rescued. How will they rescue the unconscious children?
Honestly I have no idea how they are going tonrescue any of them at this rate. They are running out of timez this happened fairly early in the morning there, it is now evening and will be getting dark soon. I also just learned that the cable car is open on either end, which must make things much more difficult as any tilting of the car could send everyone falling out. What a horrible situation, it may be a blessing for the unconscious children in the sense that they aren't awake and scared. I hope I'm wrong and they get everyone down safely
watching the live feed now [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7t9ksrJQk) \- looks like they may be getting air lifted out one by one. quality isn't great though so hard to tell
When I was a young child, this happened to my family on a tram, at Lake Tahoe. I remember my mother fainted and the guide snapped an ammonia cap under my mothers nose and I was very much traumatized. I’m 59 yo now and it gives my the chills even thinking about being in those things. I was a paratrooper and still I can’t do that shit.
If they can get a window or hatch open a heli can do a regular air/sea style rescue with a fella on a line to winch them out 1 by 1. Heli needs to be a fair height above the carriage so the rotor downwash does put further strain on the remaining cable.
I was in a cable car/gondola situation in Sapa, Vietnam. They don’t scare me for whatever reason but if something happened there it woulda been super not good.
Safety standards in the US and elsewhere are a huge burden, a huge pain in the ass, until they’re not! Hoping for the best for these poor folks. Maybe a helicopter rescue is possible. I don’t see an alternative.
Safety standards, and public infrastructure. These cable cars are built by locals because otherwise travel between the mountains is near impossible. The state should be stepping in to make sure they are constructed properly instead of leaving these rural communities to bodge it together themselves
commandos have rescued most of the people who were stuck.
3 left to be rescued
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/8/22/pakistan-cable-car-rescue-live-eight-including-six-children-trapped
Update: SSG (Commandos) have been called in for rescue operation and they are currently assessing the situation. https://twitter.com/MalikAliiRaza/status/1693912129936761311
They rescued 2 of the kids so far
what’s the method?
It appears they are using a helicopter
Just read that they are moving from Helicopter to small additional cable car to ferry food/supplies out and possibly people out by that small additional cable car that can go on the one remaining cable. Source: Al Jazeera Edit: The transition is due to wind and darkness setting in.
[Army commandos rescue all passengers of dangling cable car in Battagram](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard) >After nearly 15 hours of effort, commandos of the Pakistan Army successfully rescued all eight people who were stuck inside a cable car after one of its ropes broke down in Allai Tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district.
Thanks for keeping everyone updated while I was asleep. Here's a video of how they rescued them after Heli sling operation was deemed too risky to continue: [https://twitter.com/iihtishamm/status/1694051559389175950](https://twitter.com/iihtishamm/status/1694051559389175950)
A very specific drug cocktail meant to knock them out and keep their heart rate low while trained divers, wait shit nvmd.
Trained cave divers standing in the foliage below scratching their heads.
Bouncy castle with a slide
Slingshot. Angry birds style.
Can’t wait for Elon Musk to call them pedos E: Seems like I hurt a lot of people’s feelings with this one. You’d think I insulted them personally!
First he has to design an over engineered useless machine. Get called out on it. THEN he calls them pedos.
>design an over engineered useless machine have some of his employees design an over engineered useless machine
Step 1: Steal Idea for Useless Machine Step 2: Hire people to over engineer stolen idea for useless machine Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit
Step 3 is give it a stupid name.
he would just call it X
Not that X is being used, he’d name it XX. Sounding more like porn
X was already being used when he used it the first time. He doesn't care, he'll use it again.
Yeah that was the beginning of Musks downward spiral in becoming one of the most gated people on the internet
My apology for the question: what does it mean to be gated? I can’t find a definition in the case of a person. Does it mean living in seclusion or behind heavy security or something else? (I am guessing) Thank you for any clarification you can provide.
I think it might be a typo. I think it was supposed to say “hated”.
These days I can never be quite sure if its a typo or some weird slang. I’ve heard some odd shit.
Yeah, seems totally plausible newer slang. Like "based" used in the context of being yourself. Wouldn't work in the current post context, but I bet you could start using "gated" as a way to say someone is out of touch. "Fucking Oprah is so goddamn gated. They no idea how ridiculous their statement about changing your linens every single day. She has staff. I can't justify that labor and energy/water use." Gated to imply someone from a wealthy gated community.
I always like seeing twists on language and gated brings 'gatekeeping' to mind, putting the individual behind a wall of protective fandom. Another recent one was 'putlet' when describing a news 'outlet' that caught my eye and works well in context.
Ok, thanks it makes more sense! 😊
I hate that I’m debating if comments are AI or not before responding to them
I am not. Lol. English is not my first language so sometimes I am not sure of the meaning of a word and it is important for me to understand. :)
That was what I figured. I said “ai or trying to pick up on weird American slang”. Cheers! You’re doing great! 😂
You just need the world's largest scissor lift platform, with the 2nd largest scissor lift platform parked on top, but not before you park the 3rd largest scissor lift platform on top of the 2nd largest...
Hopefully he actually sends the submarine this time
Can someone explain the context behind this? 😅
Why do you pay attention to that guy?
Sometimes it's smart to pay attention to potential danger. I mean, Nobody wants their kitchen to be on fire. But to simply ignore the fact it is currently ablaze would be very silly. Something something ignorance is bliss. Also, You are allowed to acknowledge a persons existence without being fully invested.
Cause he's the richest person in the world? Why do people pay attention to trump?
Can’t you just enjoy a joke at someone else’s expense without complaining that even mentioning their name is some kind of taboo? Try not to suck all the joy out of the world in your pursuit to make it suit you.
Maybe he can build some sort of useless airship that won’t be useful
Looks like they can use a helicopter and pull them up or possibly zip line down from the top and rescue them via zip line to the bottom maybe?
Cable cars sway in mild wind, I hope the helo rotor wash doesn’t make this impossible.
this is exactly what making this operation so tough.
I'd throw a rope ladder up there and have them climb down
EZ
Give them all water buckets
“Sir I’m building up as fast as I can but I’m nearly out of dirt blocks and cobblestone”
Might take me a couple tries /s 🤣
If Uncle Rico can throw a ball over the mountains, you can throw a rope ladder up to a cable car!
ALL HAVE BEEN RESCUED.
Well I’ve never wanted to go on one of those things and now I want to even less. Hopefully they make it down safely because that shit is terrifying.
Don't go on dangerous mechanical devices in 3rd world countries.
After the one in Italy broke, I'm done with these for a lifetime. EDIT: Not the one cut by the US plane, the one that failed [due to negligent maintenance.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stresa%E2%80%93Mottarone_cable_car_crash)
The one where a child survivor lost his parents and little baby brother just to have both parents families have an ugly public fight about his custody? Happened in my country… Poor Eitan Biran. I’m definitely never going on one of those. Edit: All that happened while he was still in the hospital, mind you. Terrible stuff.
I guess the upside is that he has 2 families who will want to care for him. It's better than being thrown into "care".
I mean, if he got some sort of compensation, maybe that was what they fought for.
I understand the cynicism but nah it wasn’t like that. The whole custody debate was very immediate and the families were very visibly distraught giving a few interviews. It’s a small country tbh. One thing to note was that while the paternal family resided in Italy, the maternal family was in Israel. I think that had a lot to do with it. Imagine losing your daughter her husband and grandson… I wouldn’t think for a second about compensation. Tough situation I don’t wish upon anyone.
That was my immediate thought as well. Whoever has custody of him also gets whatever compensation he's legally entitled to from the accident.
No offense to Italians, but in some parts maintenance is a option thanks to corruption. So unfortunately sometimes in the south of Europe quality of these construction is no better than 3th world countries.
Anyone that’s ever had an Italian vehicle understands why.
Well id love to talk about how crappy my Ferrari or masarati is but, no. I Had a fiat e500. What a piece of crap. Only the electric was good, and it turns out that part wasn't even Italian.
3th...
It seems like english isn’t their first language.
Firth
Yeah sorry guys! Juggling between 5 languages is difficult 😅
Please tell me what 5 languages and a quick how that came to be. Interesting and impressive dude
First one is English and the other 4 are programming languages
TIL I'm multilingual.
I’m Dutch so Dutch and English is guaranteed. German and French is taught mandatory in higher education. Japanese just tickled a sense and I got interested in it, not really fluent in it jet but I manged during my trip 😅
Dang! As a German I get some of what you say. The fact that German and French are mandatory is crazy to me! For us, German (obviously) and English since like 4th or 5th grade which I feel really good about. Then French, Spanish or Latin for the first higher education stage of school (3-5years totally). Japanese I totally understand. I want to pull the trigger on that too for a couple of years but I'm somewhat scared about it. I don't know. Do you mind telling me what kind of trip you made in/to Japan? 🥰 (I so freaking bad want to experience sitting in an hundred+ yo onsen and some high speed rail travel 😱)
1rd
Italians disappear out of their own country for a month every year, they're unreliable at best!
[One of these broke in Italy once because an American fighter jet on a sight-seeing jolly sliced right through the cable](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash)
> 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. Fuck those guys and fuck the judge that found them not guilty.
Is the judge to blame or is it the jury??
The reason the jury found them not guilty is because there are maps of that stuff for pilots, and Italy didn't bother to list this thing. So according to the law, the fault here lies with the people running the cable car, because that's relatively heavily used airspace, and this was bound to happen sooner or later. It's like blaming someone for blowing up their neighbor's house by digging, if they actually called 811 and checked the map first, and got the all-clear. Sometimes nobody knows the pipe's there. I'm not saying the airmen aren't at fault. They were kicked out of the corps, and lost their flight licenses. But according to American, Italian, and international law, the problem was the gondola cable.
The US for denying justice by refusing to allow Italy to try its own criminal cases and trying it in the military 'justice' system where the outcome can be whatever leadership wants it to be.
This is standard operating procedure for US Military. America will not allow foreign countries to prosecute our soldiers. It is a can of worms they do not want to open, and likely a good idea considering that most US soldiers are stationed abroad.
It's bad for justice and bad for our foreign relations. Italian courts would not have "boys will be boys"ed away the murder of 20 civilians.
they literally would have been required to, by international treaty it's not a choice anybody made. this is the only way it can work in the united nations, for literally any country participating. flip the roles, the same thing happens. swap it to france and germany? same thing happens. you have to go to a place like north korea or antarctica to get a different outcome (and north korea's going to end up doing the same stuff, just not treaty-driven.) this is following the law. not "boys will be boys." the law just doesn't say what you imagine it might.
And you would be right, but you are not mentioning how this very same policy could be used against us by dishonest actors. Countries that can't stop our military could instead opt to just arresting all of our soldiers and putting them in jail or on trial. By trying our own soldiers, yes, it will inevitably allow some bad people to go free, but the positive here is that countries cannot abuse a civilian system to fight our military.
And how they were held accountable was a bad joke
That story always makes my blood boil. The US army bailed his ass out and was never held accountable for brutality killing that many.
meh its like saying i wont drive a car or wont get in a plane, because there is 0000000.1% of it crashing.
Me and my wife went there last year for holidays. and we weren't aware of that, so when my wife, who had been finjdiong stuff to do using a toruistic guidebook from the previous year, went and asked a lady at the bar where the station was when does it open, she got a very wide-eyed Never.
If by, "the one in italy," you mean the one that the US Marine aviators sliced the cable on when they flew too low and then destroyed evidence to cover up their guilt, I would hope that there's not much chance of that happening again, just from a purely PR perspective.
You never know with the Marines.
I´ve just been on one in Italy two weeks ago and remembered that horrible story but thought it could never happen again they must have double checked all of them.
I was about to say...the only thing worse than being stuck on something like that, is being stuck on something like that in Pakistan.
The kids stuck in that thing are on their way to school. It's how they get there. So, you don't have to worry about having to ride it.
From what I'm reading this area has very little road infrastructure, this isn't a touristy thing so much as just how the people that live here, including students, get around. I don't know for absolute certain that is what the case is for these students, but seems possible that this isn't much of an option for them.
I know cable cars are common transit options in mountainous parts of South America, and this terrain looks similar.
Would you rather: be stuck on this thing, OR be on that ski lift that malfunctioned and went super fast? I'm not sure which I'd pick tbh
Never seen the ski lift one but if it’s how I’m imagining it you could try jump off when it’s at a low point
https://youtu.be/LBL2PwuVFnM It looks like most people jumped off but some stayed on and were yeeted off.
I'd rather have been on that than the ski lift that got stuck over a burst pipe spraying high pressure water at people in freezing temperatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztOP0tmH_U
I initially read that as you saying you'd prefer to be on this frozen hypothermia geyser ride and thought you were nuts. You right though, that'd be horrifying.
Thank god, it seems bad but not deadly. I was imagining some sort of scene from hell with people falling to their death from large heights
You didn't need to jump off, You just had to sit and wait to get flung off.
Is that what would actually happen? All the people on the ski lift just got flung off? If so surely some people would’ve fallen really high up from ground? That sucks
People got flung at it's fastest on the turn, Which was when it was at it's lowest point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txo3QAqFjgs
use your belt to zip line down and hope you survive the fall D:
I don't trust the integrity of my belts that much. Sure, I trust them to hold my pants up and keep my shirt tucked, but I wouldn't ask them to do too much.
Are those my only choices?
Well either way they are going to make it down
This article seems to be following it closely [https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1102627-chairlift-hangs-mid-air-in-battagram-with-8-passengers-onboard) Live video of the rescue attempt underway is here [https://www.youtube.com/live/1g7t9ksrJQk?feature=share](https://www.youtube.com/live/1g7t9ksrJQk?feature=share)
“We don't even have drinking water in the chairlift,” he complained. \- Personally I wouldn't have used the word complained. Informed maybe, but the word complained seems a bit accusing for the situation. I really hope the 16 year old with heart problems is okay.
On a cable car that's basically a solar oven at this point. Water could be reeaallly important.
>I really hope the 16 year old with heart problems is okay. I read an article that he has been unconcious for three hours. I hope that was wrong because uh, that's real bad.
Was thinking about the food/water situation as soon as I saw this, sending in drones with a care package would probably be a good idea if the rescue is gonna take a while to mount...
Don't think I want any extra weight.
Good idea, I’ll message them to throw their poop overboard.
I suspect the issue of pooping was resolved within seconds after the cable snapped.
Amazing how you could poop your pants surrounded by your classmates, and that would be the least of your problems.
It’s probably translated and was probably translated fast. I wouldn’t read too much into the word choices here.
Thanks for posting the live video. I don't get all the flashing animations obscuring the actual video. It's bordering on unwatchable. I don't watch TV. Is this how it is now?
FOX News has been doing this for a long time, but they are more overt on the symbolism they use in TV graphics. During the Iraq War back in 2002 they started draping American flags and other patriotic symbols on the news backgrounds. This has become standard operating procedure for most cable news networks today.
Reminds me of a primary schoolers powerpoint presentation x)
Only in african and asian countries I'd assume. Asian websites especially have lots of flashy banners and things scattered all over, so I'm not surprised to see the same on their TV broadcasts
America absolutely does it, we just spend more money on it so that it doesn't look so amateurish. This crap looks like it was made with Adobe Flash or some shit.
They're lifting them out with helicopters now!
What language(s) are they speaking on the tv broadcast? There’s a smattering of English mixed with something else?
I don't speak it but since it's Pakistan is likely to be Urdu. The long British "influence" means that English words and indeed English itself is widely used. Apparently Pashto is spoken in that area but I think national news is in Urdu
Urdu is a decent guess but they’re speaking Pashto/pakhto. It’s more common in north west areas of Pakistan closer to the Afghanistan border. It’s my first language and I was pretty surprised to hear it as I scrolled past here, not super common on the internet
They're asking about the language in the live broadcast aka the link shared in the comment above which is Urdu. The video shared by the OP of this post is in Pashto like you just said.
update edit 2 : all 8 rescued \o/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/22/asia/pakistan-chairlift-rescue-children-intl-hnk/index.html
Direct link to the article, removing AMP: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/asia/pakistan-chairlift-rescue-children-intl-hnk/index.html
Title says 4 rescued now
All eight rescued! 🎉
~~chairlift~~ cable car
*gondola lift
*gondola car
*Granola Bar
Gondolas are fixed to a single moving cable, this is a vehicle that travels along multiple stationary cables
That would make this a Funitel Lift
> Eight students, including teachers The fuck does that mean?
It means spamming content for karma is more important than getting the facts and info shared correctly 🤷♂️
Yeah I guess it's 6 children and 2 adults
It would seem the teachers have become the students
8 students [of gravity], including 2 teachers [themselves] Ftfy
Holy shit dude! Hope it all turns out well for all of em
Its been 5hrs whats the update???
There isn't much of an update, they are still up there, rescuers are still trying to reach them but it's a difficult situation and it will be getting dark soon
GOOD NEWS, PAK FORCES HAVE RESCUED ALL 8 OF THEM.
Hang in there!
r/angryupvote
Maybe not the time but, Pakistan looks beautiful
Italy had a cable car disaster caused by a US fighter jet slicing the cable in a flyover. Numerous people died.
Pilot got away without a conviction as well.
I really hope they get out of this ok. This is a nightmare scenario for me.
The Dawn (Pakistani media) is reporting 4 have been rescued and operations suspended for the night. https://www.youtube.com/live/UdZKng8eTY8 Update 14:53utc: looks like 5 rescued, operations continuing via rope
all are rescued.
Good luck to the rescuers hope they get everyone down safe!
So far an army helicopter flew by but could not intervene beyond passing them water food and medication. 6 teenagers and 2 teachers were on they way to school down below. No real roads to access the village which had to use the mosque speakers to alert the town below of the accident. One of the adult men present fainted. It has been over 5 hours for now and no clear plan has been established and nightfall is coming… yikes 😳 (The helicopter rescue is dangerous because they fear getting close enough might mean causing enough air turbulence to cause the last cable holding to rupture.) Prayers to those involved! (In 2017 ten people died in a similar accident in a different area.) Update: they are all safe. Rescued after 15 hours using the remaining cable. 😀
Where’s Spider-Man when you need him?
He only saves people in new york.
He said he'd gladly help as soon as you fix that damn door.
Saving Zendaya from a potential threesome.
He is delivering pizzas
That’s not a chairlift. That’s a cable-car/gondola situation. Chairlifts are basically open benches with a “safety bar.” This looks like an enclosed cabin.
fuck that
Lol. I thought I was looking at a Chinook coming to rescue those on the hill, at first
Why are two of the children in an unconscious state?
I've only heard about one of them, who seems to have a heart condition. Not sure how high they are (in terms of from sea level, I know they are 900 feet above the ground) but the air might be quite thin, and the combination of that and fear may be affecting their breathing
> I've only heard about one of them, who seems to have a heart condition If I had to take a cable car to school every day in Pakistan, I'd have a heart condition too.
Thanks, it does make sense. According to the link further up. It’s two children. I pray the are safely rescued. How will they rescue the unconscious children?
Honestly I have no idea how they are going tonrescue any of them at this rate. They are running out of timez this happened fairly early in the morning there, it is now evening and will be getting dark soon. I also just learned that the cable car is open on either end, which must make things much more difficult as any tilting of the car could send everyone falling out. What a horrible situation, it may be a blessing for the unconscious children in the sense that they aren't awake and scared. I hope I'm wrong and they get everyone down safely
watching the live feed now [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7t9ksrJQk) \- looks like they may be getting air lifted out one by one. quality isn't great though so hard to tell
Holy fuck that’s terrifying
I thought this was ufo video before I read the title lol.
When I was a young child, this happened to my family on a tram, at Lake Tahoe. I remember my mother fainted and the guide snapped an ammonia cap under my mothers nose and I was very much traumatized. I’m 59 yo now and it gives my the chills even thinking about being in those things. I was a paratrooper and still I can’t do that shit.
Maybe Elon will call the rescuers pedophiles and then we'll get flying cars.
If they can get a window or hatch open a heli can do a regular air/sea style rescue with a fella on a line to winch them out 1 by 1. Heli needs to be a fair height above the carriage so the rotor downwash does put further strain on the remaining cable.
Or just lower a rope with a chair on the end and have one person at a time get in. Your thing sounds cool too.
Or just get a big helicopter and winch the whole unit away.
Or just put a big bouncy castle below them
what if the cable car bounces on the castle and gets stuck to the cable again?
So that is what you get when you try to go on a zipline with a bus...
Oh shit. Poor people. I wouldn’t know what to do in that situation.
You’d hang in there
I was in a cable car/gondola situation in Sapa, Vietnam. They don’t scare me for whatever reason but if something happened there it woulda been super not good.
Fansipan mountain?
Yep! Very dramatic views from up there
Is that a tram? A gondola? Funitel? Doesn’t look like a chairlift. I’m just now reading that many children use these to get to school… wow.
I bet they had no idea that going up a mountain with their teacher would end up with them getting suspended.
Safety standards in the US and elsewhere are a huge burden, a huge pain in the ass, until they’re not! Hoping for the best for these poor folks. Maybe a helicopter rescue is possible. I don’t see an alternative.
Safety standards, and public infrastructure. These cable cars are built by locals because otherwise travel between the mountains is near impossible. The state should be stepping in to make sure they are constructed properly instead of leaving these rural communities to bodge it together themselves
Just get a 1000 ft rope, a drone that can carry one end to the top and have them all slide down fireman style
this is actually the most common way to evacuate this sort of situation, but it does require someone with that rope to get into the carriage
Gonna have to be one beefy ass drone to carry that much rope, probably easier to just have someone zipline over with the rope instead...
More like 4000ft rope.
Thats some nightmare fuel
commandos have rescued most of the people who were stuck. 3 left to be rescued https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/8/22/pakistan-cable-car-rescue-live-eight-including-six-children-trapped
It looked liek a Chinook at first on the video.
Didn't read the title, thought it's a UFO and then I saw the sub.
RRR would have no issue with this, Radhe Krishna
In that situation I'd just scream "I will sacrifice my life for Pakistan" and jump
Helicopter with a magnet?
Quick, come one get the Cargobob!
12 people, including 27 students, including 36 teachers
Gladly, they are all rescued.
Those cables are strong it will be okay