Dozens of passengers stuck in Haifa cable car for over two hours; all rescued

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Dozens of passengers were stuck in the air in the Haifa cable car after a technical fault halted Line 27. Fire and rescue crews arrived at the scene and prepared a complex rescue operation, and the lower section resumed operating after about an hour and a half.

A break in the pulley of one of the cabins activated the automatic braking system, which stopped the other cabins in the air. The faulty cabin was manually unloaded by emergency and maintenance teams, and the investigation of the incident is ongoing.

After more than two hours in the air, all passengers were evacuated from the cable car, and the upper section then also resumed operating. The fault occurred only two days after the system returned to operation at the end of maintenance work.