Title: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Content: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998, also called the Strage del Cermis ("Massacre at Cermis") occurred on 3 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway. Joseph Schweitzer, one of the two American pilots, confessed in 2012 that

Title: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Content: to plunge over killing them all. The plane had wing and tail damage but was able to return to its base, Aviano Air Base. Those killed, 19 passengers and one operator, were all Europeans: eight Germans, five Belgians, three Italians, two Poles, one Austrian and one Dutch. President Bill Clinton offered an official apology and promised monetary compensation. The then-United States Ambassador to Italy, Thomas M. Foglietta, 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

Title: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Content: 13 July 2011. The Marine aircrew was determined to be flying too low and too fast, putting themselves and others at risk. The investigation team suggested that disciplinary measures against the flight crew and commanding officers should be taken, that the United States had to bear the full blame for what happened, and that victims' relatives were entitled to receive a monetary settlement. The commission found that the squadron was deployed at Aviano on 27 August 1997, before the publishing of new directives by the Italian government forbidding flight below in Trentino Alto Adige. All the squadron's pilots received a

Title: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Content: the requests coming from Italy. The appeal of Schweitzer was denied in November 2007. Decisions from the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces were made available in August 2009. In a formal investigation report redacted on 10 March 1998 and signed by Lieutenant General Peter Pace, the U.S. Marine Corps agreed with the results of the Italian officers. The investigation was led by General Michael DeLong, along with Italian Colonels Orfeo Durigon and Fermo Missarino. The document was kept secret until the Italian newspaper "La Stampa" legally obtained a copy from the United States archives and published it on

Title: Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
Content: EA-6B Prowler, BuNo (bureau number) "163045", 'CY-02', callsign "Easy 01", an electronic warfare aircraft belonging to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) of the United States Marine Corps, was on a low altitude training mission. At 15:13 local time it struck the cables supporting the aerial tramway-style cable car from Cavalese. The aircraft was flying at a speed of and at an altitude of between in a narrow valley between the mountains. When reaching approximately , the aircraft's right wing struck the cables from underneath. The cable was severed causing the cabin from Cermis with 20 passengers on board

Question: Where in Italy did a US military aircraft slice through the steel wire of a cable car in 1998?
Answer: Cavalese