The Kaprun Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 11th of November, 2000, a fire began on board a train carrying passengers up to a ski resort in Kaprun, Austria..."

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MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

CORRECTIONS:
► At one point in this video I mistakenly give the height of Mount Kitzsteinhorn as "3,000 metres (or around 5,000 feet)". This is an incorrect conversion - I should have said "10,000 feet".

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[wildcat]

Awww yes, I'm so ready for my weekly dose of being furious at basic safety failures.

[talabackland]

I can't stress how much I appreciate the way there's no filler in these videos. Just straight to the story.

[BiggestBisonLover]

It’s comforting to know so many of them lost consciousness before dying. I can’t imagine how terrifying and slow the death would be. At least they were unconscious before the flames got to them.

[Uberkatze-]

at this point the background song has been completely and forever imprinted into my memory

[mountaineergirl]

The most shocking part of this story is that it happened in 2000. The lack of attention to safety seems so 1970s to me.

[stevepowsinger]

It goes to show: engineers must always ask “what if this happens” questions - and override objections of “that will never happen”.

[derrickscott]

Trapped on a crowded train in a tunnel, plunged into darkness, burning and choking to death... that's on the shortlist of most terrifying ways to go.

[NoArtisticLimitation]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the firefighter who saved those few people? Without that one person onboard, we would be hearing “there were no survivors”.

[sunflower_sappho]

My best friends grandparents died in the disaster. I never knew them but I know that her mom is still grieving. It was horrific.

[JP-xihg]

Imagine over a hundred people fleeing away from a raging inferno and ONE person tells you and less than a dozen others "no, let's run towards the fire." And then you survive. I can't even imagine the terror any of these people, victims or survivors, felt there in the pitch black. And you just know those survivors were hit with crippling PTSD and survivor's guilt.

[KyrosTheWolf]

"It hasn't happened before so why bother taking precaution" is an incredibly dangerous and stupid mindset. It's like saying "I've never been in a car crash so I won't bother wearing a seatbelt". Prevention is better than reaction

[wassolldas]

Please also note that the heater that caused the fire was heavily modified by completly incompetent personnel, taking the electrical parts out of the casing and badly fiting it in the back of the train (and surrounding it with flammable isolation). It is unbelivable that the person that modified the train and the person checking this "modification" were not sent behind bars - even more unbelivable: the company operating the train afterwards tried to sue Fakir, the company that produced the original heater.

[leeshepherd]

I'm a train driver by trade and a fire in a tunnel petrifies me. Even though all the equipment is there it's so easy and quick to go wrong. R. I. P to all the souls lost in this tragic incident.
Thank you FH for the videos.

[karsten]

They are missing the key point in this disaster. This line was build according to the rules for an air-lift using gondolas. Not to train regulations. As an example this explains the shatter proof vindows, and several other key factors resulting in the disaster.

[benjamingreenwood]

You know it's serious when he cuts out the music for a third of the video. You're probably one of the most astonishingly respectful real-world horror channels on YouTube.

[josealqueres]

"Fireproof" as much as the Titanic was unsinkable..

[kabalan]

Funny how when they thought the train was indeed fireproof, no one considered that a fire from inside the train would cook everyone inside relatively quick since all the heat it would create would have no place to go.
Imagine rescuers finding the train and it's in great condition since it's fireproof, but everyone inside is burnt to ash.

[SaltyAndSassy]

"The safety regulations that govern them are written in blood."
That's the eeriest (and most accurate) thing you've said.

[runfunorgodough]

That volunteer firefighter sure deserves an award amongst other things.

[FlorSilvestre]

What a beautiful memorial. So many times when a disaster like this happens all the victims get is a plaque with a list of names, and maybe a generic statue. But that room full of rainbows of glass to encase you in the vibrancy of every life lost...even as a complete stranger to this tragedy (I'd never so much as heard of it until now), I feel moved by the photographs alone. *That's* how you convey the gravity of a loss like this and remind the world that these people meant something.