On Monday morning, at the peak of Mottarone mountain in Italy, operations began to remove the cable car from the tragedy that killed 14 people in May, including 5-year-old Israeli Eitan Biran's parents, brother and great-grandparents.
Over the past several days, firefighters cut down approximately 80 surrounding trees in order to effectively remove the cable car via helicopter.
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A complex undertaking, it is expected to take anywhere between 7 to 10 days.
Italian police had arrested three people in connection with the Stresa-Mottarone cable car crash, whose 14 victims included nearly an entire Israeli family.
Site manager Luigi Nerini, business manager Enrico Perocchio, and chief engineer Gabriele Tadini had all been taken into custody after investigators determined that the cable car's brake system was faulty.
District prosecutor Olimpia Bossi said that the three had known about the technical problem prior to the crash, alleging that they had been aware that the car was operating without brakes since April 26.
Eugenio Corrias contributed to this report.
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