Editing Kaprun disaster (section)

==Casualties and aftermath==
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|Germany||37
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|Japan||10
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|United States||8
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|[[Slovenia]]||4
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|Netherlands||2
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|United Kingdom||1
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|[[Czech Republic]]||1
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In addition to those who escaped from the Alpincenter and the person whom firefighters revived, 10 Germans and two Austrians escaped from the burning train by descending past the fire.

19-year-old German [[Freestyle skiing|freestyle skier]] [[Sandra Schmitt]] was one of the victims, at the time the reigning [[FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1999#Dual Moguls.5B7.5D|Women's Dual Moguls World Champion]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|access-date=6 January 2012|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/nov/17/guardianobituaries.johnsamuel|title=Obituary – Sandra Schmitt|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 November 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624081224/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/nov/17/guardianobituaries.johnsamuel|archive-date=24 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Josef Schaupper]], a seven-time [[Deaflympics|Deaflympic]] medalist, was killed along with his fellow deaf skiers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82145|title=Cable Train Fire in Austria|date=6 January 2006|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwePCgAAQBAJ&dq=Josef+Schaupper&pg=PA186|title=155: Kriminalfall Kaprun|last1=Godeysen|first1=Hubertus|last2=Uhl|first2=Hannes|pages=192|year=2014|publisher=Editions A Verlag|isbn=978-3-990-01092-1|language=de}}</ref>

The funicular was not reopened and was replaced by a [[gondola lift]], a 24-person Gletscherjet 1 [[funitel]]. The stations were abandoned and the tunnel sealed. The track remained in place for over a decade until the track and the supporting structure below the tunnel were removed in 2014, leaving just a gap in the trees where it had been.

On 19 February 2004, Judge Manfred Seiss acquitted all 16 suspects, including company officials, technicians, and government inspectors, saying there was insufficient evidence to find them guilty of [[criminal negligence]]. In September 2007, the public prosecutor found the manufacturer of the electric heater was not responsible.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zeilinger |first1=Lilli |title=Kaprun-Katastrophe: Ex-Anklägerin bricht das Schweigen nach Urteil |url=https://www.salzburg24.at/news/salzburg/pinzgau/kaprun-katastrophe-ex-anklaegerin-bricht-das-schweigen-nach-urteil-44816668 |access-date=29 November 2018 |publisher=salzburg24 |date=17 February 2014 |language=German}}</ref>