Kaprun disaster
The Kaprun disaster was the result of a fire that broke out in the tunnel of the funicular train in Kaprun, Austria on November 11, 2000, taking the lives of 155 passengers. Nearly one year after the fire, the official inquiry determined the cause was a faulty heater in the train and highly flammable hydraulic brake oil.
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The white train can be seen waiting at the valley station. It enters the tunnel where the fire occurred after the short open-air section on trestles (seen here). The tunnel entrance is just visible as a black dot at the end of the trestles.
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The victims were skiers who wanted to reach the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier :
- 92 Austrians
- 37 Germans
- 10 Japanese
- 8 Americans
- 4 Slovenians
- 2 Dutch
- 1 Briton
- 1 Czech
