The Mt. Faito cable car opened in 1952. Four people died in 1960 when a pylon broke. Italy has recorded two similar fatal accidents involving cable cars in recent years. A cable car crash in May ...

Details are emerging of the horrifying final moments of a British couple who died alongside two others when the cable car they were travelling in plummeted 100ft into an Italian mountainside.

A cable car accident on a mountain near Naples left at least four people dead and one critically injured, according to officials in southern Italy.

Stresa Mayor Marcella Severino told local media it appeared a cable had snapped close to the route's final pylon, causing the car to plunge and overturn several times.

Hanging over a steep drop, the cable car hurtled “at full speed” into a pylon and plummeted nearly 100ft into thick woodland. The carriage then tumbled down the mountainside, rescuers said.