I’ll be fascinated to hear more about this as it gets investigated. I’m a former ski lift operator and there’s so many systems on a modern lift to prevent that. That one looks not quite new but certainly not so old as to not have such precautions. Though it just says hit a pole, it’s possible that said pole wasn’t a lift tower, and of course being that this happened in Turkey it’s possible if not likely that the standards are simply lower than in Colorado.

Also, here’s a slightly more in-depth article from a more niche source: https://liftblog.com/2024/04/13/gondola-tower-collapse-kills-one-in-turkey/

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety on Saturday.

The rescue operation was completed nearly 23 hours after one pod of a cable car hit a pole and burst open on Friday, killing one and injuring seven others as they plummeted to the rocks below.

The accident occurred on the Tunektepe cable car just outside the Mediterranean city of Antalya during the busy Eid al-Fitr holiday.

Images in Turkish media showed the battered car swaying from dislodged cables on the side of the rocky mountain as medics tended to the wounded.

Friday was the final day of a three-day public holiday in Turkey marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which sees families flock to coastal resorts.

The cable car, un by Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, carries tourists from Konyaalti Beach to a restaurant and viewing platform at the summit of the 618-metreTunektepe peak.

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I fucking hate these things.