On 22 August 2023, in the Allai valley near the city of Battagram in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, a cable car used by local residents for daily commuting to school became the centre of a rescue operation after one of its cables snapped, leaving six children and two adults stranded approximately 274 meters (900 feet) above the ground.

It drastically reduced the travel time between a village and the local school from a two-hour road journey to a four-minute ride on the cable car.

Strong winds in the region and concerns about the helicopter's rotor blades potentially destabilising the chair-lift complicated the mission.

[8] Local residents who spotted the stranded cable car used loudspeakers to alert authorities, prompting the initiation of the rescue mission.

[10][11] Later that day, Pakistan's caretaker prime minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar announced that everyone was rescued.