International Three arrested for the fall of the cable car in Italy because they knew that the emergency brake was deactivated
On Sunday morning, May 23, the Mottarone cable car cabin had already reached its destination. Just a few meters away, the manager was ready to receive the passengers, opening the doors for them, when
the cable
that was pulling him - for reasons not yet clear -
broke
and the cabin began to travel backwards, towards the valley, to great speed. No brakes as they were blocked by the "fork".
This is documented by two videos recorded by two surveillance cameras at the upper station of the
cable car
, that Sunday, May 23. Two videos that the
Corriere della Sera
obtained this Wednesday, but which it has decided not to show in their entirety.
Those images document what happened around 12 noon.
How the cabin in which 15 people were standing when it was about to enter the station suddenly left, beginning to back up and traveling about 300 meters hooked to the transport rope, very long seconds, that the
Corriere della Sera
has decided not to show -, and then fell.
14 of the 15 passengers died in the accident.
The videos, in the investigation
The two videos, one taken from outside the station, the other from inside, are part of the investigation of the tragedy being carried out by the Verbania Public Ministry, which has registered three people as defendants in the suspect registry. of multiple homicide, very serious injuries and disaster due to the elimination of security systems. One is the owner of the Ferrovie del Mottarone,
Luigi Nerini
, another, the head of service
Gabriele Tadini
(the only one under house arrest) and the third, the operational manager of the plant,
Enrico Perocchio
.
A tragedy that could have been avoided if
the cab safety brakes
, which had given technical problems, had not been deactivated pending repairs.
Why did the tow rope break?
The prosecutor
Olimpia Bossi
and the deputy
Laura Carrera
entrusted this Monday the extrapolation operations of the data from the memories of the mobile phones and PCs seized by the police of the Verbania company to a consultancy, in the presence of the defenses of the three suspects. and the lawyers for the civil parties, the relatives of the 14 deceased persons and the 5-year-old boy who was injured.
The investigating judge, for his part, set the beginning of the evidentiary event for July 8, during which the experts appointed by the judge and the consultants of the Public Ministry and of the parties will participate in the beginning of the examinations on the remains of the cabin and throughout the plant.
The objective is to establish the reasons why
The tow rope, as can be clearly seen in the images, broke
while the cabin was a few meters from reaching its destination, where an attendant was waiting for it, ready to open the security gate and the doors.
The cabin started at full speed backwards, accelerated by the towing rope which, remaining tied only on one side, that of the descent, acted as ballast, increasing the thrust due to the slope of the towing rope. For about 400 meters she ran hooked to the transport rope until she reached the pylon through which she had passed on the way out shortly before and that served as a springboard.
The wheels of the heavy steel cart that supported the suspended cabin came off the transport rope causing it to fall with all the passengers along the steepest stretch of the slopes of Mount Mottarone where it overturned to stop its race against the tall trees of the forest. .
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