Video of the Italian Cable Car Plummeting to the Ground

[GAK9]

Very sad incident. 14 innocent lives lost.

https://twitter.com/Tg3web/status/1405111148907749378?s=20

 

[fz1boxer]

so close yet so far,damn

 

[StuP]

I assume there must have been a safety system that failed I wonder what it was.

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

wow, sad! Poor folks must have been scared to death those last few seconds.

 

[Nonliberal]

I assume there must have been a safety system that failed I wonder what it was.

AVE explains what happened. This guy us probably my favorite YouTuber

 

[Gingerbeard Man]

I assume there must have been a safety system that failed I wonder what it was.

Emergency braking system had been tampered with.

 

[fast306stang]

I assume there must have been a safety system that failed I wonder what it was.

WIKI:

On 26 May 2021, three employees of the cable-car company were arrested. One of the three worked as a freelancer for the company but was an employee of Leitner Ropeways, the company in charge of regular maintenance work on the cable car.[19] According to police, they had intentionally deactivated the automatic emergency brake as a malfunction had repeatedly led to the halting of the cabins.[20] After the service resumed on 25 April, the cable car showed "anomalies". The cable car had been travelling in that way for several days and had made several trips. Technical checks were performed, including a check on 3 May 2021 to "remedy inefficiencies", but they had not been "decisive" in resolving issues, investigators said. Based on photos from the disaster site, experts have been able to determine that at least one of the gondola's brakes had been disabled with a steel clamp, which is usually employed during specific maintenance activities.[21] If the emergency brakes had been functional, they would have held the cabin steady after the cable snapped. The move was made "in the belief that a cable breakage could never have happened".[22] The operations manager admitted that the emergency brake had been manipulated. Due to continuing hydraulic oil leakage, which apparently was not repaired, repeated spurious activation of the emergency brake occurred and, to maintain the operation of the cable car, they deactivated the emergency brake.[23] The reason for the breaking of the haulage cable broke is unknown.

Images provided by a Swiss cable car technician[24] and shared by him on YouTube[25] show that the Stresa–Mottarone cable car had previously been operated with passengers aboard, with emergency brakes disabled, in 2014 and 2018.

 

[gamadmex4502]

Next to an elevator plunging, this is as scary as it gets.

 

[StuP]

Murder charges pending I hope.

 

[imawoodsman]

WOW!! How SAD!!
Praying for the 14 souls & their families!